Master of Malt

Profile narrative

Master of Malt is a United Kingdom-headquartered online retailer of alcoholic drinks. Its core business is e-commerce sales of bottled beverages, with a strong emphasis on whisky and spirits. The company’s retail scope includes whisky and other drinks categories commonly sold by specialist online drinks merchants, such as gin, rum, vodka, liqueurs and wine. It serves customers through a web-based storefront rather than functioning primarily as a producer, distiller, or regulatory body. Its market position is therefore that of a specialist online drinks retailer, with whisky as a central part of its offering. The business’s customer-facing activity is based on online product listings, purchasing, and fulfilment for alcoholic beverages.

A distinguishing attribute of Master of Malt is its specialist positioning within online spirits retailing. The organisation is associated with the online alcoholic-beverage market and with customer access to spirits and whisky products through digital commerce channels. Its offering has included sample-size whisky formats, which distinguish a specialist whisky retailer from a seller focused only on full-size bottles. The available context does not provide employee numbers, revenue, customer counts, countries served, or other quantitative scale indicators, so no such metrics are asserted. What is explicit is the company’s United Kingdom headquarters and its role as an online merchant in the drinks sector. This places the organisation within the UK alcoholic retail environment while making digital retail systems part of its operating context.

The supplied incident overview records a cyber incident dated 13 September 2026 involving Master of Malt. In that overview, the company is described as being impacted by a cyberattack on Ribon that compromised BigCommerce. This is relevant to the organisation’s profile because it connects the retailer’s online commerce activity with external technology and platform-related risk. No ownership, parent-company, subsidiary, or group-structure details are provided in the available context, so none are inferred.

Incidents

1 incident linked to this organisation.