Was LaRosa’s Pizzeria hit by ransomware?

LaRosa’s Pizzeria was listed by the Medusa 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 Medusa ransomware group?

Medusa 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 LaRosa’s Pizzeria breach?

Medusa published data attributed to LaRosa’s Pizzeria. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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LaRosa’s Pizzeria

Claimed by Medusa · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Medusa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site: Nov 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

LaRosa's Pizzeria is a regional pizza restaurant chain founded in 1954 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company operates dozens of locations primarily across the Greater Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio areas, as well as parts of Kentucky and Indiana. It is a family-owned chain known for its Buddy LaRosa-founded recipes and community presence in the tri-state region.

Industry: Quick-Service & Casual Dining (Pizza Restaurant Chain)
Address: 2334 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45208, United States
Employees: 501-1000
Founded: 1954

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by Medusa, a prolific ransomware group known for exfiltrating sensitive data prior to publication. A regional restaurant chain of this scale likely holds employee PII, customer payment/loyalty data, and financial records, constituting significant business and potentially regulated data exposure.

The Medusa ransomware group claims to have attacked LaRosa's Pizzeria and has disclosed the data (status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company data. The specific data types and volume are not confirmed from the truncated leak post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee records
Customer data
Financial documents
Internal business files
Personally identifiable information (PII)

What the group claims

LaRosa’s Pizzeria is a family-owned pizza restaurant chain founded in 1954 by Donald “Buddy” LaRosa in Cincinnati, Ohio. Known for its signature thin-crust pizzas made with Aunt Dena’s original sauce recipe, the company has become a regional favorite across Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. LaRosa’s offers a wide variety of Italian-inspired dishes including pasta, hoagies, and salads. The brand emphasizes family traditions, community values, and quality ingredients. Still operated by the LaRosa family, it continues to represent the spirit of local hospitality and authentic Italian-American cuisine after more than 70 years in business. company is headquartered in 2334 Boudinot Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45238, United States.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Leak posthttp://xfv4jzckytb4g3ckwemcny3ihv4i5p4lqzdpi624cxisu35my5fwi5qd.onion/detail?id=63a36fe98816513a0d32671b200c1c2f

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 7, 2025LaRosa’s Pizzeria listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 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 Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, LaRosa’s Pizzeria is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means LaRosa’s Pizzeria 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 Medusa'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.