Was SONY.COM hit by ransomware?

SONY.COM was listed by the ransomed 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 ransomed ransomware group?

ransomed 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 SONY.COM breach?

ransomed published data attributed to SONY.COM. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Sony Group Corporation

listed as SONY.COM · Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, formerly known as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. The company operates across consumer electronics, gaming, entertainment, semiconductors, and financial services on a global scale. It is one of the world's largest and most recognisable technology and entertainment corporations.

Industry: Consumer Electronics & Multinational Conglomerate
Address: 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Employees: 100000+
Founded: 1946

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims full system compromise and exfiltration of data across a major multinational corporation, with data actively being sold. However, the actual volume, nature of the data (PII, financial, etc.) and independent verification are unconfirmed, and no ransom or specific regulated-data categories are explicitly enumerated, preventing a critical rating without further corroboration.

The group 'Ransomed' claims to have fully compromised all of Sony's systems and states the exfiltrated data is being offered for sale rather than held for ransom, asserting Sony declined to pay. A file tree and data samples were advertised as proof links in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

File tree of compromised systems
Sample data files
Unspecified internal system data

The group's post references roughly 2 proof files.

What the group claims

Sony Group Corporation, formerly Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, and Sony Corporation, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, JapanWe have successfully compromissed all of sony systems. We wont ransom them! we will sell the data. due to sony not wanting to pay. DATA IS FOR SALE----- File tree:linkSample Of Data:link-----WE ARE SELLING IT

Sources

Victim sitesony.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2023SONY.COM listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SONY.COM is reported in Japan, a country with 220 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means SONY.COM 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 ransomed'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.