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Kimberly-Clark

Claimed by Shinyhunters · listed 3 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Shinyhunters
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kimberly-Clark is a multinational manufacturer of personal care and consumer goods, including tissue products, diapers, and hygiene solutions. The company operates globally with significant manufacturing and distribution infrastructure.

Industry
Consumer Goods & Personal Care

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The post is a ransom threat with a deadline but contains no published proof, no data inventory details, and no confirmation of what was exfiltrated. Classification as medium rather than low reflects that the attacker claims possession of data and has set a public deadline, suggesting some breach occurred, but without proof or specifics the claim remains unverified.

ShinyHunters claims to possess exfiltrated data from Kimberly-Clark and threatens to publish it by 16 September 2026 unless contact is made. No specific data categories or operational impact have been disclosed in the available leak post.

medium

What the group claims

This is a final warning to reach out by 16 Sep 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 13 Sep 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About shinyhunters

Based on the limited publicly available information, shinyhunters appears to be a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than sector-specific specialization. The group has reportedly victimized approximately 77 organizations, with primary targeting focused on the United States, France, Japan, Germany, and Australia, showing particular interest in consumer services, technology, financial services, transportation and logistics, and education sectors. Given the group's very recent emergence in late 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations, and no known law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. The current operational status of shinyhunters remains active based on available reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security firms like Mandiant, CrowdStrike, or government agencies have not yet been published due to the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 165 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post September 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 13, 2026Kimberly-Clark listed by shinyhunters on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by shinyhunters

shinyhunters has been linked to 165 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 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kimberly-Clark is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by shinyhunters means Kimberly-Clark 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on shinyhunters'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.