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AOT Japan

bd_43a37f16930aeb2f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 5, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for AOT Japan →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2026-02-05
View aggregator listing on ransomware.live

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

AOT Japan Ltd. is a Japanese logistics and freight forwarding company and a member of the international AOT Group. It was officially incorporated in 1986, following its establishment as a liaison and sales office of American Overseas Transport Ltd. Initially focused on ocean shipments from the United States to Japan, the company has since expanded its services worldwide. With over 30 years of experience in the Japanese market, AOT Japan Ltd. is a member of JIFFA and the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and holds an NVOCC license, enabling it to issue its own House Bills of Lading. The company offers a full range of logistics services, emphasizing high service quality, operational expertise, and a personalized, customer-focused approach.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 5, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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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

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  • materiality
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  • affected count
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