Was Hungry Lion hit by ransomware?

Hungry Lion was listed by the medusalocker ransomware operation (Ghana), 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 medusalocker ransomware group?

medusalocker 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 Hungry Lion breach?

medusalocker published data attributed to Hungry Lion. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Hungry Lion

Claimed by Medusalocker · listed 11 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Medusalocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: Ghana
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Aug 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hungry Lion is a fast food franchise operating across southern Africa, offering burgers, chicken, chips, and ice cream. The chain operates 111 locations across South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Mauritius.

Industry: Quick Service Restaurant / Fast Food Franchising

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of operational POS data across multiple systems from a multi-country franchise network. POS systems typically contain transaction records, potentially including payment card data, customer information, and business metrics. Scale across 111 locations and three distinct systems elevates impact.

MedusaLocker claims to have exfiltrated data from Hungry Lion's point-of-sale systems. The group advertises access to three POS systems: Unity POS (242MB monthly data), GAAP POS (daily data), and CoSoft POS (145 terminals).

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

POS transaction records (Unity POS)
Daily sales data (GAAP POS)
Terminal transaction data (CoSoft POS, 145 terminals)

What the group claims

Fast food franchise (burgers, chicken, chips, ice cream) - 111 locations across South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mauritius. Three POS systems: Unity POS (242MB monthly), GAAP POS (daily), CoSoft POS (145 terminals). | Botswana

Sources

Leak posthttp://t33zoj4qwv455fog7qnb2azi5xcdxkixughmmduzbw2rtdgryqfbh6id.onion/company/bajaqah/

Source

Indexed 11 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About medusalocker

MedusaLocker is a ransomware operation first publicly documented around 2019, though the activity cluster reflected in this dataset shows observed campaigns beginning in November 2022, driven primarily by financial motivation with no known ideological or hacktivist agenda. The group is believed to operate out of or with ties to Eastern Europe, functioning as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model that allows affiliates to deploy the ransomware in exchange for a share of ransom proceeds, a structure documented in a joint advisory published by CISA, FBI, FinCEN, and HHS in June 2022. MedusaLocker actors typically gain initial access through phishing emails, exploitation of vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol configurations, and compromised network devices, subsequently deploying the ransomware payload which encrypts victim files using AES-256 combined with RSA-2048 encryption while also exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption to enable double extortion pressure. Based on available telemetry, the group has claimed at least 67 known victims, with targeting concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, France, and Israel, spanning sectors including business services, manufacturing, technology, and education, consistent with the opportunistic rather than highly selective targeting pattern characteristic of RaaS affiliate programs. As of the time of writing, MedusaLocker remains an active threat with no confirmed law enforcement disruption, takedown operation, or confirmed rebrand publicly attributed to the group by major intelligence or law enforcement agencies. The group has been linked to 88 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post August 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 27, 2026Hungry Lion listed by medusalockeron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by medusalocker

medusalocker has been linked to 88 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 19 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hungry Lion is reported in Ghana, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by medusalocker means Hungry Lion 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on medusalocker'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.