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Merkez İlaç

listed as merkezilac_archives · Claimed by HYFLOCK · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
HYFLOCK
Status
Data leaked
Country
Turkey
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Merkez İlaç is a Turkish pharmaceutical manufacturer established in 1934, specializing in disinfection products, antiseptics, first aid kits, and over-the-counter medicines. Operating from a 7,000 m² facility in Çekmeköy, Istanbul, it is fully regulated by the Turkish Ministry of Health and holds cGMP, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 certifications. The company supplies over 3,000 pharmacies and 9,500 hospitals/clinics in Turkey, and exports internationally.

Industry
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & Disinfection Products
Address
Taşdelen Mh. Ayça Sk. No:6, 34788 Çekmeköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded
1934

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published and the company name/details disclosed, suggesting confirmed exfiltration of business records. However, no regulated sensitive data (PII at scale, medical records, financial data) is explicitly mentioned as compromised, and no operational disruption is claimed. The disclosure appears to be primarily archival/business data rather than customer or patient information.

The HYFLOCK group claims to have breached Merkez İlaç and exfiltrated data. The leak post contains detailed company information but does not explicitly state what data was compromised or whether encryption occurred.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company archives
  • Operational records
  • Product/manufacturing documentation

What the group claims

It is not a retail pharmacy, but a well-known large-scale comprehensive pharmaceutical and hygiene/disinfection product manufacturer with nearly a century of history. Here’s a detailed introduction about the company: 🏢 Company Background and Scale • Founded: Established in 1934, it is one of the oldest local pharmaceutical factories in modern Turkey, with 100% Turkish capital. • Production Base: Its modern central laboratory and factory are located in Çekmeköy, Istanbul, Turkey, with high-standard closed production workshops covering an area of 7,000 square meters. • Certification Standards: Production is fully supervised by the Turkish Ministry of Health (T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı) and has passed a series of international certifications including cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice), cGLP (Good Laboratory Practice), ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 (Medical Device Quality Management System). 🧪 Core Products and Business Merkez İlaç follows its iconic slogan “#sağlıkiçinhijyenşart” (Hygiene is a prerequisite for health) and is the leader in Turkey for first aid, skin care, and disinfection products, with the most complete product categories and extremely high market share: 1. Disinfection and Anti-infection Series (core products): • Produces various professional and consumer skin disinfectants, hand sanitizers, anti-infection foams, surgical wipes, and wound cleansers (common brands include Opakjel and İsosol series). 2. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medicines and Ointments: • Produces skin ointments and creams, such as İhtamol ointment, Starbaz cream, İsosol ointment, Vitamin E, and baby diaper rash cream (Pişik Kremi) for skin care, burns, and eczema. 3. First Aid and Medical Consumables: • It is the first and only company in the Turkish pharmaceutical industry to legally produce standardized first aid kits (Hızır medical kits, covering earthquakes, home, car, and industrial scenarios) and household/commercial medicine boxes. 4. Contract Manufacturing (CMO): • In addition to its own brand, it also manufactures tablets, capsules, sprays, drops, liquids, and semi-solid ointments for over 50 global and local pharmaceutical companies. 🌍 Industry Influence The company’s service network is extremely extensive, directly supplying products to over 3,000 local pharmacists and more than 9,500 hospitals and clinics in Turkey, and exporting to multiple overseas countries. In international humanitarian aid (such as Red Crescent supplies and earthquake donations), it is also a major provider of medical supplies and surgical/first aid consumables in Turkey.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About HYFLOCK

HYFLOCK is a ransomware group first observed in October 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, representing an emerging threat actor with a limited but notable operational footprint of eight confirmed victims across multiple continents. The group's geographic targeting pattern spans Brazil, Canada, India, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, suggesting a deliberate focus on economically significant nations across South America, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East rather than a regionally constrained operational posture. HYFLOCK has demonstrated a cross-sector targeting approach, with confirmed victims in Technology, Financial Services, and Government and Defense verticals, indicating opportunistic selection rather than strict industry specialization. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, the FBI, or Mandiant at the time of this profile, definitive attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, specific tooling, or initial access vectors has not been publicly established. The breadth of targeted countries across multiple regions with no clear geographic concentration, combined with the inclusion of government and defense entities alongside private sector victims, warrants close monitoring as the group's tactics, techniques, and procedures become better documented through continued incident response activity. HYFLOCK should be considered an active and emerging threat, and organizations in the identified target sectors and geographies are advised to maintain heightened defensive posture pending further intelligence development. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2026merkezilac_archives listed by HYFLOCK on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by HYFLOCK

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

See the full HYFLOCK dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, merkezilac_archives is reported in Turkey, a country with 32 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by HYFLOCK means merkezilac_archives 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on HYFLOCK'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.