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Higuchi Shokai

bd_01a9774a42374b0a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 28, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Stormous on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-06-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

(Dallas - HongKong - LosAngeles ) Comprehensive financial statements including Balance Sheets, Asset records, Liabilities, Capital, Accounts Receivable (A/R), and Accounts Payable (A/P) database backups from Sage 50 (formerly Peachtree Accounting software), indicated by the .ptb file extension Corporate data detailing domestic and international inventory tracking, trade checking, and business operations.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 28, 2026

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteJun 28 · first · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2022-03-22

stormous

According to ransomware.live, Stormous is an Arabic-speaking, pro-Russian ransomware and hacktivist group active since at least 2022, known for politically motivated attacks across 15+ countries, collaborating with GhostSec on the GhostLocker 2.0 RaaS platform and inheriting GhostSec's RaaS operations in mid-2024.

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