Disclosure context

About Dunghill_Leak

Dunghill_Leak is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that emerged in April 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting small to medium-sized organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited public reporting from major threat intelligence firms and law enforcement agencies. Based on their targeting patterns, the group appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against businesses in English-speaking countries, particularly the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States, as well as expanding operations into South American markets including Brazil and Bolivia, with a preference for victims in business services and technology sectors. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, Dunghill_Leak operates as a smaller-scale ransomware group compared to major threat actors, and specific details about their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports. The group's current operational status remains unclear, as limited public information prevents a comprehensive assessment of their ongoing activities or potential law enforcement disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 10, 2023; most recent post July 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 27, 2023Sysco Corporation listed by Dunghill_Leakon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Food & Agriculture sector, which has 13 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sysco Corporation is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Sysco Corporation

Claimed by Dunghill_Leak · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 27, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dunghill_Leak
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: May 27, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sysco Corporation is an American multinational corporation and the world's largest broadline food distributor, marketing and distributing food products, kitchen equipment, smallwares, and tabletop items to over 600,000 clients including restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, hotels, and other foodservice businesses. The company operates approximately 330 distribution facilities worldwide, serving customers in over 90 countries. Sysco also offers management consulting services as part of its broader foodservice offering.

Industry: Wholesale Food Distribution & Foodservice
Address: 1390 Enclave Parkway, Houston, TX 77077, United States
Employees: 58000
Founded: 1969

Attack summary

Severity: high — Sysco is the world's largest broadline food distributor with over 600,000 clients and tens of thousands of employees; data publication by Dunghill Leak indicates confirmed exfiltration of significant business data at scale, likely including customer PII, employee records, and sensitive financial information, representing a high-impact breach even absent a stated ransom or precise data volume.

Dunghill Leak claims to have exfiltrated data from Sysco Corporation and has published the data. No ransom amount was stated and no specific data size was disclosed in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business financial records
Customer data
Employee data
Vendor and supplier information
Operational distribution data

What the group claims

Sysco Corporation is an American multinational corporation involved in marketing and distributing food products, smallwares, kitchen equipment and tabletop items to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, hospitality businesses like hotels and inns, and wholesale to other companies that provide foodservice. Sysco is the world's largest broadline food distributor; it has more than 600,000 clients in a wide array of fields. Management consulting is also an integral part of their services. The company operates approximately 330 distribution facilities worldwide; providing service to over 90 countries.

Sources

Victim sitesysco.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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