Del Monte Food 2026 Data Breach
Retail & Commerce / Packaged & Canned Foods (CPG) / Consumer packaged-goods manufacturer / United States
Del Monte Food 2026 Data Breach
US producer of packaged and canned foods (fruits, vegetables, broths, snacks) under the Del Monte brand; distinct from Fresh Del Monte Produce.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
34/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
143k rowsRecords
2026Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Breach Summary
On or about April 30, 2026, the Payouts King ransomware and extortion group listed Del Monte Foods on its leak channel under a double-extortion model, with roughly 143,000 records associated with the entry. Specific personal-data fields were not enumerated by the company or the actor at the confirmed level; Payouts King is an active group with 50-plus claimed victims concentrated in the US and Europe.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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143k rows records analyzed
About Del Monte Food
Del Monte Foods is a US producer and distributor of packaged and canned food products, including fruits, vegetables, broths and snacks under the Del Monte and related brands. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, it is one of the country's best-known shelf-stable food companies and sells through grocery retail and foodservice channels. It is distinct from Fresh Del Monte Produce, a separate fresh-produce company.
Why They Hold Your Data
As a consumer packaged-goods manufacturer, Del Monte Foods holds employee and corporate records and business-partner data, including names, contact details and internal documents; its direct consumer-PII holdings are more limited than a retailer's. The exposure most likely concentrates in employee and business data rather than mass consumer records.
Recent Developments
On April 30, 2026 the Payouts King ransomware group publicly claimed a Del Monte Foods breach and posted an extortion notice; the company entered the period under financial strain, having pursued a bankruptcy restructuring in 2025.
Data Points Exposed
1 verified field types
Full Name
Breach Impact
A packaged-foods manufacturer breach primarily exposes employees and business partners rather than a broad consumer base, creating employment-data notification obligations and operational and reputational strain, particularly given Del Monte's concurrent financial restructuring. The listing invites downstream scrutiny and potential follow-on extortion.
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
PK
Threat Actor: Payouts KingConfidence: Low
Motivation: Financial
A low-confidence name that appears more like fraud-market branding than a conventional intrusion set. There is not enough reliable public sourcing for a standalone threat actor bio.
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