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ASAHI GROUP COMPANY LIMITED

bd_c3f30ec65ea578fe · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 29, 2022

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ASAHI GROUP COMPANY LIMITED4 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackbyte 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: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2022-10-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Asahi Group Company Limited was founded in the 1970s in Hong Kong. For more than 40 years, we have worked hand in hand with our partners and have built a reputation for not only meeting their requirements, but also exceeding their expectations. Being family-owned allows us to enjoy a high degree of flexibility and provide customized services and innovative solutions to our partners.Our work at the Asahi Group is fueled by a competitive spirit and the active innovative genes that reside in every team member. As our founder always said, “We are manufacturing for the future.”Asahi Group leverages its capabilities to stay at the cutting-edge of the industry. Our dedicated engineering and research team continuously develops new technologies and solutions, with an aim to manufacture the unmanufactured in a cost-effective way. That is why we had started with precision metal manufacturing and later expanded to total metal solutions which includes both functional and cosmetic metal solutions.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 29, 2022

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 2021-10-04

blackbyte

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