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Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

bd_0c17a44d491b4e4a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 24, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Worldleaks 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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2025-11-01
Listing address (not linked): https://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/5218015704

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. is a Japanese company that specializes in the manufacturing and sale of over-the-counter drugs, oral hygiene products, and healthcare items. Their extensive product line-up includes cool fever patches, pain relief patches, skin creams, oral care products, and other health-related goods garnering a global presence. They focus on enhancing everyday health and comfort for their customers.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 24, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

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 2022-06-23

worldleaks

According to ransomware.live, World Leaks emerged in January 2025 as a rebrand of the Hunters International ransomware operation, shifting its focus from file encryption to solely stealing sensitive data and threatening to leak it unless a ransom is paid

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