Was Nidec Motor Corporation hit by ransomware?

Nidec Motor Corporation was listed by the 8Base ransomware operation (Japan), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the 8Base ransomware group?

8Base is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Nidec Motor Corporation breach?

8Base published data attributed to Nidec Motor Corporation. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Nidec Motor Corporation

Claimed by 8Base · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 3, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: 8Base
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jun 3, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nidec Corporation is a global manufacturer of electric motors and related components, headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. The company specializes in precision motors including HDD spindle motors, brushless DC motors, and fans for industrial and consumer applications.

Industry: Electric Motors & Components Manufacturing
Address: Kyoto, Japan
Founded: 1973

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirms exfiltration, but the leak post excerpt contains only boilerplate company description with no detail on data types, scale, or proof files. Moderate severity assigned pending fuller post content.

8Base claims to have accessed Nidec's systems and published data. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration scope, or data types are provided in the available post excerpt.

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What the group claims

Founded in 1973, Nidec Corporation is a global manufacturer of electric motors, and related components and equipment. The Company provides generalmotors, equipment devices, as well as precious small motors, including hard drive and hard disk drive (HDD) spindle motors, other small precision brushless direct current (DC) motors, brushless DC fans, and other small motors. The company is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.nidec.com

Sources

Victim sitenidec.com
Leak posthttp://xb6q2aggycmlcrjtbjendcnnwpmmwbosqaugxsqb4nx6cmod3emy7sad.onion/company/7890459

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About 8Base

8Base is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a rapid escalation in activity with 458 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation targeting predominantly Western markets. Based on publicly available victim data, 8Base appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against business services and manufacturing sectors, with the United States representing their primary target geography, followed by France, Brazil, Italy, and the United Kingdom, indicating a preference for developed economies with established digital infrastructure. The group has notably impacted healthcare and technology sectors alongside their primary business services focus, suggesting a broad targeting approach rather than sector-specific specialization. Given the group's recent emergence in 2023 and continued victim accumulation across diverse geographic and sectoral targets, 8Base appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though detailed technical methodologies, specific attack vectors, and notable high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security agencies. The group has been linked to 458 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 23, 2023; most recent post February 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 3, 2024Nidec Motor Corporation listed by 8Baseon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by 8Base

8Base has been linked to 458 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nidec Motor Corporation is reported in Japan, a country with 220 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by 8Base means Nidec Motor Corporation appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, JPCERT/CC (Japan), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on 8Base's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.