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Chip 1 Exchange GmbH & Co. KG

bd_6f9b438d7b489c0d · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Sep 2, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Chip 1 Exchange GmbH & Co. KG

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Aurora 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: 2026-09-02

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

[distributor] Chip 1 Exchange — a global independent electronics distributor headquartered in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, with primary US operations in Laguna Hills, California. The dataset spans 13 years (2013-2026) of corporate operations and encompasses: 40+ passport photographs, I-9 forms with SSNs, W-4 tax forms, payroll registers. <redacted> Complete 2026 financial intelligence — P&L through July, executive financial health assessment, AR/AP aging, chart of accounts revealing all bank account numbers. 15+ exclusive franchise manufacturer agreements with pricing terms, territory allocations, and per-customer gross profit margins. ITAR registration and defense customer sales orders to Jabil Defense, Curtis-Wright, GEN3 Defense, and Cobham Remec. 5.7 GB of Outlook PST email archives spanning years of C-suite and employee correspondence.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 2, 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

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

About this groupFirst seen 2026-04-17

aurora

According to ransomware.live, Aurora is a ransomware group associated with a multi-purpose Go-based malware distributed by multiple criminal teams from mid-2022, also sold as an infostealer/botnet under the same name on underground forums.

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