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Yaomasa

bd_d94bea6c1753340f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 13, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Yaomasa

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: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-08-13

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Yaomasa is a Japanese supermarket chain founded in 1919 that offers fresh foods, general groceries, and daily necessities, while also operating TSUTAYA and BOOKOFF franchise stores as part of its cultural division.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 13, 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.

51 victims claimed globally51 tracked hereFull profile →