Disclosure context

About Daixin

Daixin is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly documented sources, though their targeting patterns suggest sophisticated operational capabilities and potential access to healthcare sector vulnerabilities. Daixin employs typical ransomware attack methodologies including data exfiltration prior to encryption, implementing double extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment by threatening to release stolen sensitive information alongside system encryption. The group has demonstrated a pronounced targeting preference for healthcare organizations, which represents a significant portion of their documented victims, alongside government entities and financial services organizations. Their geographic focus centers heavily on the United States while also targeting victims across Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Canada, indicating either broad operational reach or collaboration with regional affiliates. With 21 documented victims since their emergence, Daixin represents a relatively newer but active threat actor in the ransomware landscape. Current intelligence suggests the group remains operationally active as of recent assessments, continuing to pose threats to critical infrastructure sectors, particularly healthcare organizations that may be viewed as high-value targets due to the sensitive nature of their data and operational dependencies. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 3, 2022; most recent post September 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 19, 2022AirAsia Group listed by Daixinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector. Geographically, AirAsia Group is reported in Malaysia, a country with 6 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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AirAsia Group

Claimed by Daixin · listed 4 years ago

42m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 19, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Daixin
Status: Data leaked
Country: Malaysia
Sector: Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site: Nov 19, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AirAsia Group is a Malaysian multinational low-cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the largest airline in Malaysia by fleet size and number of destinations, operating scheduled domestic and international flights to more than 165 destinations across Asia and beyond. The group operates multiple airline subsidiaries across Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Industry: Low-Cost Airline & Aviation Services
Address: RedQ, Jalan Pekeliling 5, Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur, 64000 KLIA, Selangor, Malaysia
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1993

Attack summary

Severity: critical — AirAsia is a major international airline with millions of passengers; confirmed data publication by Daixin includes large-scale PII of both passengers and employees, constituting regulated personal data exfiltration at significant scale.

The Daixin ransomware group claimed an attack on AirAsia Group and published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration of passenger and employee data including personally identifiable information. The disclosed status of 'data_published' indicates stolen data was released on Daixin's leak site.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Passenger PII records
Employee personal data
Booking and reservation information
Internal company documents

What the group claims

AirAsia is a Malaysian multinational low-cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the largest airline in Malaysia by fleet size and destinations. AirAsia operates scheduled domestic and international flights to more than 165 destinations.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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