Sysco 2026 Data Breach
Retail & Commerce / Foodservice Wholesale Distribution / B2B distributor to restaurants and institutions / Global (US-headquartered)
Sysco 2026 Data Breach
World's largest foodservice distributor, supplying food, equipment and supplies to restaurants, healthcare, education and hospitality customers globally.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
54/100
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.
1.7M 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.
Crucial data exposed
AddressHome address
Breach Summary
In June 2026, Sysco was named in ShinyHunters' Salesforce-focused extortion campaign, which used voice-phishing of employees and OAuth/connected-app abuse to reach the CRM instance. ShinyHunters claimed 61 million records; after Sysco did not pay, roughly 2.69 million unique accounts were indexed by Have I Been Pwned on June 28, 2026. Confirmed exposed fields include email addresses, full names, job titles, phone numbers, physical addresses, internal account IDs and customer-feedback records. This entry tracks about 1.7 million circulating records; the 61M figure is an unverified actor claim.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
11 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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1.7M rows records analyzed
About Sysco
Sysco Corporation is the largest foodservice distributor in the world, founded in 1969 and headquartered in Houston, Texas. It supplies food products, equipment and supplies to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, hotels and other institutional customers through a global network of distribution centers, serving hundreds of thousands of customer locations.
Why They Hold Your Data
As a B2B foodservice distributor, Sysco holds customer trade-account and employee records including names, email addresses, job titles, phone numbers, physical addresses, internal account identifiers and customer-feedback data, collected through account management, ordering and HR operations.
Recent Developments
On June 16, 2026 ShinyHunters claimed 61 million Salesforce records from Sysco with a June 18 deadline; after non-payment, Have I Been Pwned added 2,691,852 accounts on June 28, 2026. The claim followed a separate Qilin ransomware claim against Sysco in early May 2026.
Data Points Exposed
6 verified field types
Customer Service Records (comment)
Email Address
Full Name
Home address High
Job Information (job title)
Phone Number
Breach Impact
The breach exposes a large base of foodservice trade customers and Sysco employees, enabling supplier-impersonation fraud against restaurants and institutions that depend on Sysco. It carries notification exposure across many jurisdictions, follows a separate Qilin claim weeks earlier that compounds scrutiny of Sysco's security, and sits within the wider Salesforce-campaign wave.
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 this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- 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 and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: ShinyHuntersConfidence: High
Motivation: Financial extortion, data sale
A prolific data theft and extortion group that began as a database theft and resale actor and evolved toward SaaS-focused extortion. Recent activity involves vishing, credential harvesting, SSO compromise, and theft of customer data from cloud and SaaS environments.
This breach is linked to the ShinyHunters / Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters - Salesforce (2025-26) campaign. See the full campaign analysis →
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