Disclosure context

About coinbasecartel

CoinbaseCartel is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025 with financially motivated operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity in a short timeframe, compromising at least 102 known victims primarily across the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. Their targeting patterns show a preference for technology companies, financial services organizations, manufacturing entities, and consumer services businesses, suggesting an opportunistic approach focused on organizations likely to have both valuable data and the financial resources to pay ransoms. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, details regarding their specific attack methodologies, infrastructure, and organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to maintain active operations as of late 2025, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further investigation and reporting by established threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 176 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 15, 2025; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: coinbase cartel.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 20, 2026Playmates Toys listed by coinbasecartelon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Playmates Toys is reported in HK, a country with 23 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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Playmates Toys Limited

listed as Playmates Toys · Claimed by coinbasecartel · listed 1 month ago

30d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: coinbasecartel
Status: Data leaked
Country: HK
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Playmates Toys Limited is a Hong Kong-incorporated toy manufacturer and distributor (incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) founded in 1966. The company specialises in the design, production, and marketing of action figures, dolls, and interactive toys based on licensed entertainment franchises including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Monsterverse, and Miraculous Ladybug. Its products are distributed globally across major retail markets.

Industry: Toy Manufacturing & Distribution
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1966

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no specific volume, regulated data categories (e.g. PII at scale, medical, financial), or critical infrastructure impact have been evidenced in the post. The victim is a consumer goods company of moderate scale.

The coinbasecartel ransomware group claims to have attacked Playmates Toys, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating that exfiltrated data has been released or made available. No specific ransom demand or data volume has been stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Investor relations documents
Internal company files

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Playmates Toys is a Hong Kong-based toy manufacturer and distributor founded in 1966. The company operates in the consumer goods and toy industry, specializing in the design, production, and marketing of action figures, dolls, and interactive toys. It is widely recognized for producing licensed products based on popular entertainment franchises, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Star Trek, distributing its products globally across major retail markets.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

System Breach • Coinbasecartel We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss CRITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS &times; Contact Update We have changed our contact method. We now exclusively use qTox Messenger for all communications. SimpleX and Session have been discontinued. Our Tox ID: A7580331D4D16453CCE86D7ADFBCF0CEED0D0D1AEA8F4DBEEBCA9E3B46308F260DE9B41BD838 TO APTIM You may have noticed the sudden, heavy silence. The corporate VPNs are dead. We have been the silent architects of your network for the past three weeks. While your &#34;elite&#34; investigators from Mandiant sat in your logs, we sat directly beside them burning through over a hundred of your corporate identities like disposable tools. we have had your entire network and internal protocols. HOW LONG WILL YOU KEEP YOUR THOUSANDS OF FIELD WORKERS LOCKED OUT? We have successfully exfiltrated the most sensitive engineering data held by any firm in your sectors We hold the complete Navisworks 3D models, P&amp;ID diagrams, and maintenance logic for your major energy plants. This includes the granular Honeywell DCS controller logic. We know…

Sources

Victim siteplaymatestoys.com
Leak posthttp://fjg4zi4opkxkvdz7mvwp7h6goe4tcby3hhkrz43pht4j3vakhy75znyd.onion/companies/playmates

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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