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Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 15, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ailock 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: Transportation/LogisticsDiscovered: 2026-07-15

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd. is the largest taxi and limousine operator in Japan. For the fiscal year ending May 2025, the company reported an annual consolidated revenue of ¥103.445 billion, with group and partner company sales reaching ¥155.457 billion.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 15, 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.

About this groupFirst seen 2015-04-29

ailock

According to ransomware.live, AiLock is a ransomware operation that emerged in early 2025, marketing itself as AI-assisted ransomware using a hybrid ChaCha20/NTRUEncrypt encryption scheme and double-extortion tactics, actively recruiting affiliates and threatening regulatory reporting if ransoms are unpaid.

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