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Akir Metal San Tic Ltd ti

bd_5132c68a7a50568a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 8, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Akir Metal San Tic Ltd ti

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Knight 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: 2023-12-13

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Who is akir Metal San Tic Ltd tiAkım Metal produces metal parts in Istanbul for automotive, home appliance, motor, aircraft and defense industries using machining and metal injectionmethods with over 40 years of experience. Since 2011 our R&D Center has been developing projects under Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology'sincentives to create new products, to create differentiation at the market and in order to increase R&D activities and invest in R&D related business areas.Headquarters: 7 Esot Sanayi̇ Si̇tesi̇ L Blok No, Istanbul, Istanbul, TurkeyPhone Number: +90 2126715129Website: www.akimmetal.com.trAkir Metal is one of the most dangerous companies to cooperate with in Turkey. Akım Metal's network has a huge number of vulnerabilities that are not patched and can be used to attack the company's customers and steal confidential data.We have deeply studied Akım Metal's network and claim that cooperation with this company can lead to hacking of all its customers at any moment. Data has been stolen:- NDA documents- Personal data- Insurance data- Financial Documents- Engineering information- Patents, technological developments and RND documents- Confidential customer information- Employee and management correspondence and internal dataAnd other critical documents of the company and its customers.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Dec 8, 2023

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

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-09-06

knight

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