Mackay Sugar
About the organisation
***.com.au zoominfo.com/c/mackay-sugar-ltd/1147904633 Mackay Sugar is Australia's second-largest sugar manufacturer, headquartered in tropical North Queensland with over 140 years of rich industry heritage. Owned primarily by local sugarcane farmers, the company operates major mills to produce raw sugar, molasses, and renewable electricity generated from bagasse. With an annual turnover exceeding $600 million, they serve as a vital economic pillar in the region, dedicated to sustainable practices and supplying high-quality products to global markets
What the listing means
Mackay Sugar appeared on the thegentlemen leak site on 15 June 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated — the attack itself is dated 10 June 2026, 5 days before the listing. This group has published 134 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Mackay Sugar as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on mkysugar.com.au, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Agriculture and Food Production organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/TWFja2F5IFN1Z2FyQHRoZWdlbnRsZW1lbg==