Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 3, 2026Promotion Management Center listed by AiLockon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Promotion Management Center is reported in Japan, a country with 108 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Promotion Management Center

Claimed by AiLock · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 3, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Promotion Management Center, Inc. (PMC), founded in 1983, provides fulfillment services specializing in customer incentives, loyalty rewards, employee recognition awards, rebates, and third-party logistics (3PL). The company operates under the domain pmci.com and serves clients running promotional and incentive programs. It is categorized under business services and appears to be US-based despite the Japan country tag in this record.

Industry: Promotion Fulfillment & Loyalty Program Services
Founded: 1983

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (data_published status), meaning exfiltrated data has been released. PMC handles customer PII across incentive, loyalty, and rebate programs at potentially significant scale, constituting meaningful exposure of business and consumer data.

The AiLock ransomware group claims to have attacked Promotion Management Center, Inc. and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though no specific data volume or ransom amount has been stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer incentive program data
Loyalty rewards records
Employee recognition award data
Rebate processing records
Third-party logistics order data
Business operational files

What the group claims

Founded in 1983, Promotion Management Center, Inc. (PMC) provides fulfillment services.The company specializes in customer incentives, loyalty rewards, employee recognition awards, rebates and third party logistics (3PL) orders your programs generate.

Sources

Victim sitepmci.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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