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Chemirol

Claimed by Payoutsking · listed 5 months ago

4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 14, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Payoutsking
Status
Data leaked
Country
Poland
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Jan 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Chemirol is a Polish agricultural inputs supplier and advisory company serving tens of thousands of farms across Poland. The company offers a comprehensive range of crop protection products (fungicides, herbicides, insecticides), fertilisers, biostimulants, seeds, animal feed, agricultural machinery, and fuels, as well as agronomic consulting and soil testing services. It operates through a network of branches, field offices, and grain elevators.

Industry
Agricultural Inputs & Advisory Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration has occurred, but no Chemirol-specific data inventory, proof files, or regulated/sensitive data categories (e.g. PII at scale, financial, medical) are identifiable from the provided leak post excerpt, preventing a higher severity classification.

The group 'payoutsking' has published data allegedly exfiltrated from Chemirol; the disclosure status is listed as 'data_published', indicating that stolen data has been released. The leak post itself does not contain Chemirol-specific content — the visible post text describes numerous unrelated victim companies — so the specific data categories and volume for Chemirol cannot be confirmed from the provided excerpt.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Chemirol is a Polish company acknowledged in the agricultural market for offering a wide variety of services including purchase of agricultural produce, supply of fertilizers, and fuel. It also engages in grain trading, milling, oil industry and provides financial consulting to farmers. The company has been operating since 1992 with the purpose of supporting the growth and advancement of Polish agriculture.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
|  NTN Bearing Corporation of America   |  
| --- |  
|  NTN Bearing is a producer of ball and roller bearings, with plants around the globe and a strong, domestic manufacturing network.   |  
|  SunSource is a distribution company, providing products, services, and information in hydraulics, pneumatics, filtration, automation systems, and related industrial components, serving both the industrial and mobile equipment markets.   |  
|  DEX is dedicated to delivering end-to-end product lifecycle solutions at the lowest sustainable cost, enabling customers to keep their commitments and stand out in their various industry segments.   |  
|  Englewood Labs provides contract manufacturing services for skin care products. The Company offers stability testing, package compatibility, repeated insult patch testing, comedogenecity testing, clinical surveys, and toxicological review certification services.   |  
|  SCS Engineers an employee-owned environmental consulting and contracting firm serving public and private clients across the nation and around the world. The company specializes in the assessment, design, permitting, construction, operation and maintenance, and monitoring of sustain…

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About payoutsking

PayoutsKing is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad geographic and sectoral targeting capabilities. With limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources, the group's origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional ransomware operation rather than opportunistic attacks. Based on available victim data, PayoutsKing has compromised approximately 60 organizations across multiple sectors, with primary focus on the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Spain, targeting manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and construction industries alongside various other sectors. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by established security researchers or government agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in July 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by reputable sources such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time. PayoutsKing appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security firms have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence. 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.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 14, 2026Chemirol listed by payoutskingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by payoutsking

payoutsking 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Chemirol is reported in Poland, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by payoutsking means Chemirol 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 payoutsking'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.

Chemirol data breach — Payoutsking ransomware leak (2026) · Darkfield