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SAIC Motor Corporation

bd_5c22a23dcc13a2c9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Mar 27, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for SAIC Motor Corporation

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Beast 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: ManufacturingClaimed data size: 700GBDiscovered: 2026-02-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

SAIC Motor Corporation Limited is the largest state-owned automobile manufacturer in China and one of the "Big Four" in the country's automotive industry. Headquartered in Shanghai, the company's business covers the development, manufacture, and sale of passenger and commercial vehicles, as well as auto parts and financial services Market Capitalization (USD): approx. $23.83 � $23.9 Billion.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 27, 2024

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 2023-12-19

beast

According to ransomware.live, Beast is a Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) product which provides functionality such as SMB scanning, file encryption, service and process starting and stopping, and geographic identification to avoid encryption in CIS countries.

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