Was Cal Fresh hit by ransomware?

Cal Fresh was listed by the Termite ransomware operation (Canada), 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 Termite ransomware group?

Termite 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 Cal Fresh breach?

Termite published data attributed to Cal Fresh. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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California Association of Food Banks (CAFB)

listed as Cal Fresh · Claimed by Termite · listed 8 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Termite
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Jun 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) is a non-profit organization founded in 2003 that partners with food banks and community-based organizations throughout California to educate consumers about CalFresh (the state's food assistance program) and provide application assistance to eligible individuals.

Industry: Non-profit Food Security & Hunger Relief
Founded: 2003

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only generic program information and partnership descriptions with no explicit claims of data exfiltration, encryption, operational disruption, or proof files/screenshots. No ransom demand stated. Insufficient evidence of actual breach or impact.

The ransomware group 'termite' claims to have attacked CAFB. The group's post references CalFresh program information, but does not explicitly state whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor what specific data is at stake.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

CalFresh application information
Consumer education materials
Potentially beneficiary or applicant records

What the group claims

The California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) is committed to ending hunger in California and aims to provide clear, up-to-date information about CalFresh for people who are interested in applying. Since 2003, CAFB has partnered with food banks and other community-based organizations throughout the state to educate consumers about CalFresh and provide application assistance.

Sources

Victim sitecalfresh.ca.gov
Leak posthttp://termiteuslbumdge2zmfmfcsrvmvsfe4gvyudc5j6cdnisnhtftvokid.onion/post/6a27543ec684b738d525bc1d

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post June 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 9, 2026Cal Fresh listed by Termiteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Termite

Termite has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 770 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cal Fresh is reported in Canada, a country with 313 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Termite means Cal Fresh 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Termite'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.