Sysco data breach
2,691,852 accounts exposed in a breach on 15 June 2026.
At a glance
2,691,852
Accounts exposed
15 June 2026
Date of the breach
28 June 2026
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What happened
In June 2026, the food distribution company Sysco was targeted by a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data was subsequently published containing 2.7M unique email addresses belonging to staff and customers. The data also contained largely corporate contact information including names, phone numbers, physical addresses, internal job titles, and customer feedback.
What was exposed
- Customer feedback. This kind of data was included in the breach. Treat it as exposed and be careful with messages that use it.
- Email addresses. Email addresses were exposed. Expect more spam and phishing aimed at those addresses.
- Employers. Employer names were exposed. Scammers use them to pretend to be a colleague or the workplace.
- Job titles. Job titles were exposed. Scammers use them to aim a message at the right person.
- Names. Names were exposed. Scammers use real names to make a message look personal.
- Phone numbers. Phone numbers were exposed. Expect scam calls and text messages, some of them pretending to be the organisation.
- Physical addresses. Home or postal addresses were exposed. They can be used to make a scam letter or a fake identity look real.
- Usernames. Usernames were exposed. Together with a reused password they open accounts.
What to do now
It depends on what was exposed, so these steps follow the list above.
If your contact details were exposed
- Expect more spam, scam calls and phishing. Do not click links or open attachments in messages you did not expect.
- If a message mentions this breach, do not reply. Go to the organisation's own website or app instead of using a link in the message.
Whatever was exposed
- Check which other breaches include your own email address and phone number.
- Keep an eye on your accounts for a few months. Breached data is often used long after the breach.
- If you think someone is using your details, report it to the organisation and to your national cyber crime reporting service.
Check your own exposure
- Password leak check: find out whether a password has appeared in a breach. The password never leaves your browser.
- Free domain security scan: grade the email, DNS and website security of a domain you own.
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