Was SONY.COM hit by ransomware?

SONY.COM was listed by the Ransomedvc ransomware operation (Japan), 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 Ransomedvc ransomware group?

Ransomedvc is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the SONY.COM breach?

Ransomedvc published data attributed to SONY.COM. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Sony Group Corporation

listed as SONY.COM · Claimed by Ransomedvc · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomedvc
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, formerly known as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. The company operates across consumer electronics, gaming (PlayStation), music, film, semiconductors, and financial services. It is one of the largest technology and entertainment companies in the world with operations in over 100 countries.

Industry: Multinational Consumer Electronics & Entertainment Conglomerate
Address: 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0075, Japan
Employees: 100000
Founded: 1946

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims full system compromise and exfiltration of data from one of the world's largest technology and entertainment conglomerates, with data actively listed for sale. However, independent verification of the scope was limited and the actual volume/sensitivity of exfiltrated data was not fully confirmed at time of posting, preventing a 'critical' rating.

RansomedVC claims to have compromised all Sony systems and, stating that Sony refused to pay a ransom, has announced the stolen data is for sale rather than being held for ransom. The group published a file tree and sample data as proof of the alleged exfiltration.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

File tree of compromised systems
Sample data files
Unspecified corporate data

The group's post references roughly 2 proof files.

What the group claims

Sony Group Corporation, formerly Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, and Sony Corporation, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, JapanWe have successfully compromissed all of sony systems. We wont ransom them! we will sell the data. due to sony not wanting to pay. DATA IS FOR SALE----- File tree:linkSample Of Data:link-----WE ARE SELLING IT

Sources

Victim sitesony.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the ransomware ecosystem with a documented victim count of 68 organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent group rather than a established RaaS operation. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting critical infrastructure sectors, particularly focusing on Food & Agriculture and Healthcare organizations across a geographically diverse range of countries including Bulgaria, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and Russia, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of automated scanning tools to identify vulnerable systems. While comprehensive details about their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their targeting of healthcare and food sector organizations suggests they may leverage the critical nature of these services to pressure victims into payment. The group's notable campaign activity appears concentrated in their operational period since mid-2023, though no major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other authoritative sources. Ransomedvc appears to remain active as of the latest available intelligence, though their relatively recent emergence means their long-term operational patterns and potential for rebranding or law enforcement disruption remain to be observed. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2023SONY.COM listed by Ransomedvcon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc has been linked to 68 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SONY.COM is reported in Japan, a country with 220 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomedvc means SONY.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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, JPCERT/CC (Japan), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomedvc'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.