Was Irwin Car hit by ransomware?

Irwin Car was listed by the Payouts King ransomware operation (United States), 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 Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King 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 Irwin Car breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to Irwin Car. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Irwin Car and Equipment

listed as Irwin Car · Claimed by Payouts King · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 11, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Nov 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Irwin Car and Equipment is a US-based manufacturer of heavy-duty material handling equipment with over 120 years of operation, serving more than 30 industrial market segments including metals, mining, tunneling, energy, and transportation. The company offers product lines under the Irwin, Atlas, and Phillips brands, including mining cars, tunneling cars, locomotives, traction motors, and rubber-tired steerable equipment. It operates multiple locations across the United States and serves customers worldwide.

Industry: Heavy-Duty Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosure status is data_published, confirming some level of exfiltration, but no specific sensitive regulated data categories (PII at scale, medical, financial, government) are evidenced, no data size is provided, and no ransom or detailed proof inventory is described, limiting the assessed severity.

The ransomware group 'payoutsking' claims to have attacked Irwin Car and Equipment, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating that data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business data
Customer records
Operational data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Irwin Car and Equipment is a manufacturing company specialized in the production of heavy-duty material handling equipment. They create custom mining cars, conveyor cars, tunneling cars and more. It aids various industries, including mining and tunneling, in improving their efficiency and safety. The company is based in the USA and is recognized for its innovative and durable equipment.

Sources

Victim siteirwincar.com
Leak posthttps:/payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/post/1lbd92QrbHpajjrl7Hmo

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 11, 2025Irwin Car listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 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, Irwin Car is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means Irwin Car 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 Payouts King'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.