Was Mother's Market & Kitchen hit by ransomware?

Mother's Market & Kitchen was listed by the AiLock 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 AiLock ransomware group?

AiLock 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 Mother's Market & Kitchen breach?

AiLock published data attributed to Mother's Market & Kitchen. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Mother's Market & Kitchen

Claimed by AiLock · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mother's Market & Kitchen is a California-based organic and natural grocery chain offering a wide selection of organic, non-GMO, and specialty-diet products, including fresh produce, supplements, and housemade café items. The company operates multiple store locations in Southern California, including a recently opened Dana Point location, and provides pickup, delivery, and in-store café services. They are known for carrying one of the county's largest supplement selections and locally sourced organic produce.

Industry: Organic Grocery & Natural Foods Retail

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The threat actor claims to have published exfiltrated employee PII including SSNs, DOBs, names, addresses, and phone numbers — a combination of regulated personally identifiable information that constitutes a significant identity-theft risk and likely triggers state and federal breach notification requirements.

AiLock claims to have exfiltrated a data archive containing sensitive personal information of employees, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, full names, home addresses, and phone numbers. The disclosed status indicates the data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee Social Security numbers (SSN)
Employee dates of birth (DOB)
Employee full names
Employee home addresses
Employee phone numbers

What the group claims

Mother's has gained a reputation for having a wide selection for specialized diets, top quality local and organic produce, the county's largest selection of supplements.The data archive contains personal data of employees: ssn+dob+name+home address+phone

Sources

Victim sitemothersmarket.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 47 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post July 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 23, 2026Mother's Market & Kitchen listed by AiLockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by AiLock

AiLock has been linked to 47 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full AiLock dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Mother's Market & Kitchen is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AiLock means Mother's Market & Kitchen 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 AiLock'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.