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 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post May 18, 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

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Mother's Market & Kitchen 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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Mother's Market & Kitchen

Claimed by AiLock · listed 27 days ago

27d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 23, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
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 27 days ago

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