Powell Electronics 2026 Data Breach
Retail & Commerce / Electronic Components Distribution / B2B authorized distributor / United States
Powell Electronics 2026 Data Breach
US authorized distributor of electronic components and assemblies (founded 1946, Camp Hill PA), serving aerospace, defense, industrial and commercial markets.
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.
199k 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, Powell Electronics was listed by the Payouts King ransomware and extortion group, which threatened to publish stolen data. Roughly 199,000 records are tracked as circulating. The specific personal-data fields were not enumerated beyond names at the confirmed level. Payouts King typically gains access via spam-bombing and Teams-based IT-support impersonation abusing Quick Assist.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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199k rows records analyzed
About Powell Electronics
Powell Electronics is a US authorized distributor of electronic components and assemblies, founded in 1946 and headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. It supplies connectors, sensors and interconnect and electromechanical products to aerospace, defense, industrial and commercial customers, positioning itself as a specialist distributor for demanding applications.
Why They Hold Your Data
As a B2B components distributor, Powell holds customer trade-account and employee records including names, business contact details and order information; because it serves aerospace and defense customers, some business relationships and contact data carry sensitivity beyond ordinary commercial records.
Recent Developments
The Payouts King ransomware group publicly claimed Powell Electronics on April 30, 2026 and threatened to release data absent negotiation. Payouts King is linked to former Black Basta affiliates and uses spam-bombing plus Microsoft Teams IT-support impersonation and Quick Assist for initial access.
Data Points Exposed
1 verified field types
Full Name
Breach Impact
Because Powell serves aerospace and defense customers, a breach carries supply-chain and business-impersonation sensitivity beyond a typical distributor, alongside employee-data notification obligations. The Payouts King extortion listing raises the likelihood of data release if the ransom is unpaid.
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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