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joycity

bd_740f50c911e82c3f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Mar 5, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for joycity

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Auditteam 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: 2026-04-08

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Joycity is a prominent South Korean game developer and publisher founded in 1994 and listed on the KOSDAQ. Renowned for its innovation and global reach, the company originally pioneered the hip-hop-themed sports genre with its self-developed FreeStyle series, which became a cultural milestone for players across Asia. In the mobile era, Joycity successfully pivoted to the Strategy (SLG) genre, producing high-revenue titles like Gunship Battle: Total Warfare and Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War, with international markets consistently accounting for over 70% of its total revenue. Currently, Joycity is actively expanding into Web3 technologies and major cross-platform projects. Its blockbuster collaboration with Capcom and Aniplex, Resident Evil Survival Unit, has already surpassed 5 million global downloads as of early 2026, demonstrating the company’s robust R&D and operational expertise in managing world-class intellectual properties.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 5, 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 2026-02-21

auditteam

According to ransomware.live, AuditTeam is a small ransomware group with approximately 5 known victims, primarily targeting organizations in East and Southeast Asia across technology and manufacturing sectors, operating a data leak site consistent with double-extortion methodology.

41 victims claimed globally41 tracked hereFull profile →