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Fukoku Co. Ltd.

bd_e9526e58174c2778 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 9, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Fukoku Co. Ltd.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Spacebears 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: 2025-01-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

In 2022, Fukoku Co., Ltd. celebrates its 90th anniversary.Since our founder, Shinkichi Koga, began manufacturing and selling futons in Yanagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukoku has consistently been of service to our customers through "textiles."Today, we enjoy patronage from a wide range of industries, from futons (bedding) to the automotive, housing, and nursing care fields, but all of this is a business that derives from the "textile = thread" that we have known since our founding.In 2009, we created a new brand logo,which is "CCC Chasic."• Date bases. accounting. sales. purchasing. drawings. prototypes. production cycles. https://fukoku-jp.com/

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jan 9, 2025

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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-25

spacebears

According to ransomware.live, Space Bears is a double-extortion ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, distinguished by a professional "corporate" aesthetic on its leak site, leveraging Phobos RaaS infrastructure and targeting small-to-medium organizations in manufacturing, technology, and healthcare across the US and Europe.

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