KFC
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Full breach record for KFC →2 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
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kfc.com Revenue $36.4 Billion KFC runs 34,747 restaurants across 150+ countries and about 99% are franchised, run by local partners, serving roughly 1 billion chickens every year. Its restaurants sold $36.4 billion of food in 2025 with $1.5 billion in operating profit, earned mainly from 4-6% sales royalties paid by franchisees, not from selling chicken. 2025 was a record year with nearly 3,000 new restaurants opened across 105 countries, roughly one new KFC every 3 hours and 10,000 stores added in the last 5 years. KFC owns zero chicken farms or factories and buys from suppliers like Tyson Foods and Pilgrim's Pride with fresh deliveries up to 3 times a week. Around 30,000 corporate employees work for KFC worldwide while over 1 million people work across its franchise restaurants and supply network. A new U.S. KFC does about $1.5 million in average annual sales per restaurant and KFC is the world's #1 chicken chain by locations and sales.
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Oct 10, 2026
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.