Was theorangeblowfish.com hit by ransomware?

theorangeblowfish.com was listed by the krybit ransomware operation, 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 krybit ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the theorangeblowfish.com breach?

krybit published data attributed to theorangeblowfish.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The Orangeblowfish

listed as theorangeblowfish.com · Claimed by Krybit · listed 8 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Krybit
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jun 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Orangeblowfish is an award-winning independent creative and branding agency headquartered in Shanghai, China, with regional studios across Asia Pacific (Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Sydney). Founded in 2012, the agency specializes in brand strategy, identity design, digital marketing, and China localization for luxury retail, hospitality, fashion & beauty, and corporate B2B sectors, serving notable clients including LinkedIn, Cartier, L'Oréal, Alipay, and Marriott Hotels.

Industry: Creative & Branding Agency
Address: No. 596 Yan'an Middle Road, Shanghai 200041, China
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 2012

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a creative agency with access to sensitive client intellectual property (brand strategies, design work, contracts) for high-profile multinational clients in luxury, hospitality, and finance sectors. Disclosure status indicates data published.

The Krybit group claims to have accessed and exfiltrated data from The Orangeblowfish. The post discloses the attack and appears to have published data, though specific details on encryption, operational disruption, or exact data categories are not elaborated in the available excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

client project files
brand strategy documents
design assets
employee information
business communications
client contracts

What the group claims

The Orangeblowfish is an award-winning independent creative and branding agency founded in 2012 by Natalie Lowe, headqua...

The leak post

captured from the group's site

The Orangeblowfish is an award-winning independent creative and branding agency founded in 2012 by Natalie Lowe, headquartered in Shanghai, China, with teams across Asia Pacific including Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Sydney. Named Greater China Agency of the Year for two consecutive years and winner for Branding & Identity (APAC) for three consecutive years, the agency fuses local insight with creativity to build and elevate brands across luxury retail, hospitality, fashion & beauty, and corporate B2B sectors. Core services include: brand strategy; brand identity and visual identity (VI/CI); logo design; environmental graphic design (EGD); interior wall art and spatial design; brand experience and installation; digital marketing; and China localization. Notable clients include LinkedIn, Cartier, L'Oréal Group, Alipay, AB InBev, Marriott Hotels, Yum China, ASICS, Sanofi, and KOLON Sport. Key personnel include CEO Natalie Lowe and Design Director Jason Hsun.
HQ: No. 596 Yan'an Middle Road, Shanghai 200041, China 🇨🇳
Studio: Suite 208, Building 3, 210 Taikang Road (Tianzifang), Shanghai 200025
💰 Revenue: ~$10 million USD (2025)

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About krybit

Krybit is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their limited documented attacks against diverse sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public intelligence, and it is unknown whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. With only four known victims documented across geographically diverse regions including Mexico, Austria, Japan, and Botswana, the group appears to employ broad targeting rather than focused regional or sector-specific campaigns, though their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration practices have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported, and no law enforcement actions against the group have been documented. Given the recent emergence of this group and extremely limited public reporting, Krybit's current operational status and capabilities remain largely unknown to the broader cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 50 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 3, 2026; most recent post June 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 15, 2026theorangeblowfish.com listed by krybiton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,544 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by krybit means theorangeblowfish.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.
Monitor for the data appearing on krybit'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.