Was Albertsons Companies, Inc. hit by ransomware?

Albertsons Companies, Inc. was listed by the Hunters International 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 Hunters International ransomware group?

Hunters International 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 Albertsons Companies, Inc. breach?

Hunters International published data attributed to Albertsons Companies, Inc.. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Albertsons Companies, Inc.

Claimed by Hunters International · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 11, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hunters International
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Oct 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Albertsons Companies, Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retail chains in the United States, operating approximately 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia under 20 banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, and Jewel-Osco. The company serves millions of customers each week and also operates a health and wellness division and an extensive private-label brand portfolio. It is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

Industry: Grocery & Pharmacy Retail
Address: 250 Parkcenter Blvd, Boise, Idaho 83706, United States
Employees: 300000
Founded: 1939

Attack summary

Severity: high — Albertsons is a major national retailer with millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of employees; a confirmed data disclosure by a known ransomware group at this scale likely involves significant volumes of PII (customer, employee, pharmacy/health records), warranting a high severity rating even absent explicit data-type confirmation.

Hunters International claims to have attacked Albertsons Companies, Inc. and has disclosed the data as published, though the leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail the volume or nature of data obtained.

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Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Albertsons Companies, Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, serving millions of customers each week. The company operates stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia under 20 leading banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, and Jewel-Osco. In addition to its retail operations, Albertsons also has a health and wellness business and a private brand portfolio.

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Hunters International

Hunters International is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on publicly available victim data, Hunters International has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services, technology, and manufacturing sectors, with their attacks primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. With 388 documented victims since their emergence, the group has shown consistent activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reports. As of current reporting, Hunters International appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or operational changes reported by major cybersecurity agencies. The group has been linked to 695 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Hunters.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 11, 2025Albertsons Companies, Inc. listed by Hunters Internationalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hunters International

Hunters International has been linked to 695 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Albertsons Companies, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hunters International means Albertsons Companies, Inc. 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 Hunters International'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.