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NTN Bearing Corporation of America

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Apr 24, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for NTN Bearing Corporation of America2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Payoutsking 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2026-05-13

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

NTN Bearing Corporation of America is a US-based subsidiary of Japan's NTN Corporation, operating in the industrial manufacturing sector. The company produces and distributes precision bearings, driveshafts, and related mechanical components used in automotive, aerospace, and industrial machinery applications. Headquartered in Mount Prospect, Illinois, it serves customers across North America with engineering support and distribution services.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 24, 2026

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 2025-04-17

payoutsking

According to ransomware.live, PayoutsKing is an active ransomware group observed through at least 2026 that has claimed attacks against a wide range of industries internationally — including Del Monte Foods and V. FRAAS — across the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland using standard double-extortion tactics.

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