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Gümüştaş Madencilik

listed as gumustasmaden.com.tr · Claimed by LockBit · listed 7 months ago

6m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 26, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
LockBit
Status
Data leaked
Country
Turkey
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Dec 26, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gümüştaş Madencilik is a Turkish private-sector mining company founded in 1982, operating underground mines and flotation/enrichment facilities for lead, zinc, copper, gold, and silver concentrates. The company has operations in Gümüşhane (Hazine Mağara mine and flotation plant) and Niğde (Bolkar underground mine and Tepeköy enrichment facilities), with its headquarters in Istanbul. It is one of Turkey's leading base and precious metals producers and exporters.

Industry
Polymetallic Mining & Ore Processing
Address
Istanbul (head office), with operations in Gümüşhane and Niğde, Turkey
Founded
1982

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by LockBit, indicating successful exfiltration of significant business data from an active industrial mining company with multiple operational sites; while no specific regulated data categories (e.g. medical, government) are confirmed, the operational scale and published status elevate severity to high.

LockBit claims to have attacked Gümüştaş Madencilik and the disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and publication of company data. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate business data
  • Operational/mining records
  • Potentially employee records
  • Potentially financial records

What the group claims

Gümüştaş is a prominent player in the Turkish mining industry, specializing in the extraction and pr...

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About LockBit

LockBit is a highly prolific ransomware group that emerged in October 2020 and has become one of the most active ransomware operations globally, with over 3,500 documented victims and a primary motivation of financial gain through extortion. The group is suspected to originate from Russia and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while providing them with ransomware tools, infrastructure, and support. LockBit primarily gains initial access through exploiting vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, credential stuffing attacks, and phishing campaigns, employing double extortion tactics where they steal sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated significant technical sophistication, developing multiple variants including LockBit 3.0 (also known as LockBit Black), and has been particularly active in targeting business services, manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors across the United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy. Despite ongoing law enforcement efforts and international cooperation to disrupt their operations, including seizures of infrastructure and arrests of affiliates, LockBit has shown resilience and adaptability, continuing to operate and evolve their tactics while maintaining their position as one of the most dominant ransomware threats in the cybercriminal landscape. The group has been linked to 3,536 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2020; most recent post March 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: LockBit 3.0, LockBit Black, LockBit Green, ABCD ransomware.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 26, 2025gumustasmaden.com.tr listed by LockBiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by LockBit

LockBit has been linked to 3,536 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full LockBit dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, gumustasmaden.com.tr is reported in Turkey, a country with 77 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by LockBit means gumustasmaden.com.tr 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 LockBit'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.