Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 30, 2026See's Candies listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, See's Candies is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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See's Candies

Claimed by qilin · listed 20 days ago

20d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 30, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Apr 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

See's Candies is an American manufacturer and retailer of chocolates and confectionery products, founded in 1921 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates hundreds of retail shops primarily across the western United States and sells products through mail order and online channels. It has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 1972.

Industry: Confectionery & Specialty Food Retail
Address: 345 Spear Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1921

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of company data by Qilin, a known double-extortion ransomware group. Even without a detailed inventory, published data from a well-known consumer brand with a large customer base and Berkshire Hathaway affiliation represents significant business and potentially customer PII exposure.

The Qilin ransomware group claims to have attacked See's Candies and has published data, suggesting exfiltration of company data. No specific details about the nature of the data or encryption activity are available from the truncated leak post.

high

What the group claims

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The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 20 days ago

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