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Albertsons Companies, Inc.

bd_fe5b23a18a6182b6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 11, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Albertsons Companies, Inc.6 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shinyhunters 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.

Group activity: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2025-10-11

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Albertsons Companies, Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, serving millions of customers each week. The company operates stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia under 20 leading banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, and Jewel-Osco. In addition to its retail operations, Albertsons also has a health and wellness business and a private brand portfolio.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 11, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-23

shinyhunters

According to ransomware.live, ShinyHunters is a financially motivated data-theft and extortion group active since 2020, responsible for high-profile breaches including Ticketmaster (via Snowflake) and PowerSchool; by 2025 they launched a RaaS offering called "shinysp1d3r," and in August 2025 French authorities arrested four members.

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