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Albertsons (Jewel Osco, etc)

Claimed by Hunters International · listed 9 months ago

9m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 3, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Hunters International
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Consumer Services
Listed on leak site
Oct 3, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Albertsons Companies Inc. is one of the largest grocery retail corporations in the United States, operating stores across 34 states under approximately 20 banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, and Acme. The company offers grocery products, pharmacy services, and specialty food products, employing hundreds of thousands of workers nationwide. It is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, and ranks among the top supermarket chains in the country by revenue and store count.

Industry
Grocery Retail & Pharmacy
Address
250 Parkcenter Blvd, Boise, Idaho 83706, United States
Employees
300000+
Founded
1939

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Albertsons operates pharmacy services handling medical/prescription PII for millions of customers across 34 states, and its retail operations involve large-scale consumer financial and personal data; a confirmed data_published status from a known ransomware group against an operator of this scale and sensitivity warrants critical severity.

Hunters International claims to have compromised Albertsons Companies Inc. and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating exfiltration and publication of data. The specific nature, volume, and categories of exfiltrated data are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Undisclosed company data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Albertsons Companies Inc. is one of the largest American grocery corporations, founded by Joe Albertson in 1939. It operates stores across 34 states under 20 well-known banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, and Carrs. It remains a leader in the supermarket industry, offering grocery products, pharmacy services, and specialty food products.

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Hunters International

Hunters International is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on publicly available victim data, Hunters International has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services, technology, and manufacturing sectors, with their attacks primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. With 388 documented victims since their emergence, the group has shown consistent activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reports. As of current reporting, Hunters International appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or operational changes reported by major cybersecurity agencies. The group has been linked to 695 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Hunters.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 3, 2025Albertsons (Jewel Osco, etc) listed by Hunters Internationalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hunters International

Hunters International has been linked to 695 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Hunters International 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, Albertsons (Jewel Osco, etc) is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hunters International means Albertsons (Jewel Osco, etc) 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 Hunters International'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.