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StarBucks Company

Claimed by ShadowByt3$ · listed 3 months ago

3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 21, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
ShadowByt3$
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Hospitality
Listed on leak site
May 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Starbucks is a major global coffeehouse chain operating thousands of locations worldwide. The company operates a significant digital infrastructure including cloud-based systems and customer data repositories.

Industry
Hospitality & Quick-Service Restaurants

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Breach of production cloud infrastructure is operationally significant, but no specific sensitive data types (PII, payment cards, medical records) are named. No proof files or screenshots are published or advertised in the post. The $500,000 figure is presented ambiguously—the attacker frames it as their own demand, but the phrasing 'they know they can afford it' and 'it's not even that much we were asking for' suggests negotiation language rather than a final published demand. No data inventory

The group claims to have breached Starbucks' AWS S3 infrastructure (specifically 'starbucks-prod' bucket) on 04/01/2026. The attacker states data was exfiltrated and alleges a ransom demand of $500,000 was made but not paid.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • AWS S3 bucket contents
  • Production environment data

What the group claims

StarBucks Failed to reach out to us and didn't pay even $500,000 when we know they can afford it. It's not even that much we were asking for. Since you didn't contact is no negotiations and this is now in the hands of cybercriminals. This is a warning to all companies if you see yourself posted here to reach us. This is the only ammount we have on are servers due to migrating dmca and ignore abuse infrastructure. They were breached on 04/01/2026 and they know they were breached because they closed the s3 bucket starbucks-prod.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in February 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on its ransomware operations. The group's country of origin and any potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited intelligence available on this newly identified threat actor. Given the minimal public documentation available, the group's attack methodology, tools, and operational tactics have not been sufficiently analyzed or reported by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. No notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, with only one known victim reported to date and no specific sector targeting patterns identified. The current operational status of ShadowByt3$ remains unclear due to the limited intelligence available on this recently emerged and relatively unknown ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 23 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2026; most recent post August 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 21, 2026StarBucks Company listed by ShadowByt3$on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ has been linked to 23 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 Hospitality sector, which has 106 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, StarBucks Company is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ShadowByt3$ means StarBucks Company 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 ShadowByt3$'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.