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International Gourmet Foods (IGF)

listed as igf-inc.com · Claimed by Blackbasta · listed 2 years ago

28m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 20, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbasta
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Mar 20, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

International Gourmet Foods (IGF) is a family-owned wholesale distributor of gourmet specialty food products and commodities serving restaurants, hotels, caterers, bakeries, breweries, wineries, and gourmet markets across the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Midwest United States. Founded in 1987 by Maurizio DiBenigno, IGF stocks over 7,000 products sourced globally and operates all-temperature truck distribution. The company opened a new headquarters facility in Woodbridge, Virginia in 2022.

Industry
Wholesale Gourmet Food Distribution
Address
7520 Fullerton Rd. Springfield, VA 22153, United States
Founded
1987

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive employee PII (personal documents, payroll) and financial/tax records at significant scale (~155 GB). Data includes regulated personal information from a sizeable employee base in a food distribution business.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 155 GB of company data including personal employee documents, HR records, financial data, and payroll information. The group published the data without stated ransom demand.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Personal employee documents
  • HR records
  • Financial data
  • Tax records
  • Payroll records

What the group claims

IGF services a variety of food industry businesses throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Midwest United States via all-temperature trucks. Our customers include restaurants, gourmet markets, clubs, caterers, bakeries, breweries, wineries, and hotels. With low order minimums, late order cut offs, and knowledgeable service, IGF makes customers its top priority. Established in 1987, International Gourmet Foods leads in wholesale distribution of gourmet specialty food products, providing high quality, innovative items from around the world. In addition, IGF carries a vast selection of expertly sourced commodity items with excellent value. IGF was founded by Maurizio DiBenigno in 1987. A life-long passion for quality products, fine tasting foods, and a wealth of experience in the food service industry inspired the principles on which Maurizio has built this company. His commitment to the needs and desires of his clients and his determination to source products of quality and value built the reputation of IGF as one of the premier gourmet food import and distribution companies in the industry. From its conception, IGF was and still is a family-owned and operated business founded on solid values and guiding principles that we continue to grow and develop. In December of 2019, Christine DiBenigno became president of IGF after 19 years of experience in the company. She and Maurizio continue to expand the company vision of not only quality food and excellent service, but also growing and enriching a diverse employee base. On March 29, 2021, IGF broke ground on a new state-of-the-art facility in Woodbridge, Virginia. This new central headquarters is scheduled to open in 2022.SITE: www.igf-inc.com Address : 7520 Fullerton Rd. Springfield, VA, 22153 Unated StatesALL DATA SIZE: ~155gb 1. Personal employees documents 2. HR 3. Financial Tax Payroll data and etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a highly sophisticated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and operates with a primary motivation of financial extortion, having rapidly established itself as one of the most prolific ransomware operations of the modern era with over 500 confirmed victims globally. The group is widely assessed by researchers including Mandiant and CISA to have likely ties to former members of the Conti ransomware syndicate following that group's dissolution in mid-2022, and operates as a private Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with a closed affiliate structure rather than open recruitment, with suspected links to the FIN7 threat actor cluster based on observed tooling overlaps documented by SentinelOne and Microsoft. Black Basta employs a double extortion methodology, exfiltrating sensitive victim data prior to encryption and threatening publication on their Tor-based leak site "Basta News" to compound pressure on victims; initial access is predominantly achieved through phishing campaigns, purchase of stolen credentials, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities including QakBot malware distribution, with the group subsequently deploying tools such as Cobalt Strike, SystemBC, and their custom encryptor targeting both Windows and VMware ESXi environments using a ChaCha20 encryption algorithm. Per CISA and FBI joint advisory AA24-131A published in May 2024, the group has struck over 500 organizations across North America, Europe, and Australia, with high-profile victims including Ascension Health, Capita, the American Dental Association, and Rheinmetall, demonstrating a clear preference for manufacturing, business services, technology, transportation, and food production sectors across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy. As of the time of available public reporting, Black Basta remained operationally active, though internal chat logs leaked in early 2025 revealed significant internal tensions and potential organizational fragmentation that security researchers assessed could impact the group's near-term operational cohesion. The group has been linked to 523 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2022; most recent post January 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 20, 2024igf-inc.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blackbasta

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 774 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, igf-inc.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackbasta means igf-inc.com 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 blackbasta'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.