Was Hy-Vee hit by ransomware?

Hy-Vee was listed by the Stormous ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Stormous ransomware group?

Stormous is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Hy-Vee breach?

Stormous published data attributed to Hy-Vee (~33 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Hy-Vee

Claimed by Stormous · listed 4 months ago

33 GB

Data size

$900

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 29, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Stormous
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Retail
Listed on leak site: Mar 29, 2026
Data size: 33 GB
Ransom demanded: $900

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hy-Vee, Inc. is a large employee-owned supermarket chain headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, operating more than 285 retail stores primarily across the Midwestern United States. The company offers grocery, pharmacy, fuel, and food service operations and is consistently ranked among the largest private companies in the United States. It employs tens of thousands of workers across its store network and corporate operations.

Industry: Grocery & Supermarket Retail
Employees: 10001+
Founded: 1930

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 33 GB of data including employee PII and internal infrastructure details, with the group actively publishing the data following refusal to pay; however, the specific data types described are business/operational rather than clearly regulated medical or financial data at scale.

Stormous claims to have exfiltrated data from Hy-Vee after the company refused to pay a $900 ransom, and is proceeding to leak approximately 33 GB of extracted data including internal documents, infrastructure diagrams, employee data, and training materials.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal documents
Infrastructure diagrams
Employee data
Training materials

What the group claims

Access obtained through compromised Atlassian accounts including Confluence and Jira. Internal documents, infrastructure diagrams, employee data, training materials, technical information related to operational systems

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Initial Access Brokers - Long-Term Collaboration
We are currently seeking reliable Initial Access Brokers for long-term collaboration.
** Please do not waste time attempting complex exploit development or direct EDR confrontation. We are interested exclusively in stable corporate access.
Local user access is acceptable.
  * Small to mid-sized enterprises: fixed payment starting at 
  * Large enterprises: revenue share from final settlement


FANASA.COM Half the data has been extracted
Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Electronic Fiscal Documents (CFDI/XML), Financial Transaction Records, Commercial Invoices & Billing Data, Taxpayer Identification Numbers (RFC), Client & Vendor Database/Internal Corporate Documentation
Administrative/System Files/ADMIN, DOAS, operational records, engineering drawings, schematics...
Project Planning & Execution Documents...
(Folders/Files) Email/Communication/System/Application Data AYEAPLICACIONES database/Log Data BDATOSFITCLOD, Software/Installation/Program Files AUTOBOU, Personal/Miscellaneous Files AvenaCubana
All of this data is offered for sale (user information: email, phone number, full name, date of birth / payment and bookin…

Data the group says was taken

PII
passwords
source_code

Sources

Leak posthttp://pdcizqzjitsgfcgqeyhuee5u6uki6zy5slzioinlhx6xjnsw25irdgqd.onion

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 245 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post July 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 29, 2026Hy-Vee listed by Stormouson the group's public leak site

Data size: 33 GB
Ransom demanded: $900

Other recent disclosures by Stormous

Stormous has been linked to 245 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Stormous dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hy-Vee is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Stormous means Hy-Vee appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Stormous's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.