DisclosureLens
GLOBALMalwareManufacturingManufacturingRansomwareInc RansomRansom DemandedActor NamedData Leak ThreatenedData PublishedHigh

Kiswire

bd_bd1e3dfc195e51d1 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Mar 23, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Kiswire2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: 2026-03-23

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Kiswire Ltd. 37 Gurak-ro 141beon-gil Suyeong-gu Busan, 48212 South Korea www.kiswire.com is a prominent player in the specialty steel wire industry, headquartered in Busan, South Korea. Founded in 1945, the company has established itself as a global leader, manufacturing a wide range of steel wire products for various sectors, including automotive, construction, energy, and electronics. Kiswire exports its products to over 80 countries and maintains a significant production capacity of approximately 1.2 million tons annually. Leaked data: 128 GB (137,688,514,560 bytes) 118,019 Files, 22,024 Folders Special data: technologies, information about manufactured products, control of technological processes and tests, product assembly schemes, material specifications, drawings, product tests, logistics, financial indicators, complete information about employees including complete personal data, photographs, gender and skin color, etc., corporate information and more. Status of data: confidental

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 23, 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.