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YCH Group

listed as ych.com · Claimed by Madliberator · listed 2 years ago

22m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 4, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Sep 4, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

YCH Group is Singapore's largest home-grown supply chain solutions company, founded in 1955 as a passenger transportation business by Yap Chwee Hock. It has evolved into a leading regional supply chain management and logistics partner serving major global brands across Asia Pacific, with operations spanning chemicals, healthcare, e-commerce, cold chain, and electronics sectors across multiple countries.

Industry
Supply Chain Management & Logistics
Founded
1955

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published and the victim is a large regional logistics operator handling supply chain data for global brands across sensitive sectors (chemicals, healthcare, e-commerce). However, no specific data inventory is disclosed in the available post excerpt, and no proof files are referenced.

The Madliberator group claims to have exfiltrated data from YCH Group. The leak post provides only a brief historical excerpt without detailing specific data categories or the scope of compromise.

medium

What the group claims

Founded in 1955 by the late Mr Yap Chwee Hock, YCH began as a modest passenger transportation company. However, in the 1970s, the family business lost its main contract. With the need to diversify the business, Mr Yap Chwee Hock roped in his eldest son,

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Madliberator

Madliberator is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across multiple continents. Based on their targeting pattern spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and South Africa, the group appears to operate internationally with no clear geographic origin established by security researchers, and their operational model as either independent operators or ransomware-as-a-service remains undetermined due to limited public documentation. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. The group has primarily targeted business services, manufacturing, financial services, and government sectors, though no specific high-profile incidents or record ransom demands have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence providers. As of current reporting, Madliberator appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing targeting activities, though comprehensive analysis remains limited due to the group's relatively small victim count and recent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 17, 2024; most recent post October 1, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: mad liberator.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 4, 2024ych.com listed by Madliberatoron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ych.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Madliberator means ych.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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Madliberator'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.