Was BARIATRIX NUTRITION hit by ransomware?

BARIATRIX NUTRITION was listed by the Payouts King 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 Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King 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 BARIATRIX NUTRITION breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to BARIATRIX NUTRITION. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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BARIATRIX NUTRITION

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 1 year ago

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jul 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bariatrix Nutrition is a Canadian protein food manufacturer specializing in high-protein, low-carbohydrate products designed for bariatric and weight-loss patients. Operating since 1978 with facilities in Canada and the US, the company offers contract manufacturing, private label services, and direct-to-consumer products including protein bars, supplements, meal replacements, and snacks.

Industry: Food Manufacturing & Medical Nutrition Therapy
Founded: 1978

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data exfiltration from a healthcare-adjacent company (medical nutrition therapy) with potential exposure of customer/patient information, but no specific data categories, volume, or regulatory sensitivity confirmed in the available post.

The payoutsking group claims to have compromised Bariatrix Nutrition and published exfiltrated data. The specific data categories and operational impact are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business data
potentially customer/patient records
manufacturing formulations
operational records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Bariatix Nutrition is a company specializing in the field of medical nutrition therapy. The company develops and manufactures a wide range of high protein, low carb food products specifically designed to meet the dietary needs of bariatric patients. Their products are clinically tested and used by doctors to help patients lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle post-surgery. Their offerings include protein supplements, meal replacements, protein bars, and vitamin and mineral supplements, among others.

Sources

Victim sitebariatrix.com
Leak posthttps:/payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/detail_post/5p2EHbutxBZj61evrdE1

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 7, 2025BARIATRIX NUTRITION listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, BARIATRIX NUTRITION is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means BARIATRIX NUTRITION 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 Payouts King'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.