Was whiskey.co.jp hit by ransomware?

whiskey.co.jp was listed by the krybit 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 krybit ransomware group?

krybit 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 whiskey.co.jp breach?

krybit published data attributed to whiskey.co.jp. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Whiskey & Co., Inc.

listed as whiskey.co.jp · Claimed by Krybit · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 3, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Krybit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Whiskey & Co., Inc. (Whiskey & Co.株式会社) is a Japanese craft spirits company founded on January 28, 2021, based in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The company operates the 'Water Dragon' distillery, producing small-batch bourbon-style Japanese whiskey and award-winning gins. It employs a web3 token-based community model and offers distillery tours alongside its products.

Industry: Craft Whiskey & Spirits Distilling
Founded: 2021

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, confirming exfiltration, but the company is a small craft distillery with no indication of regulated data (medical, financial, government) at scale, and no data volume or specific sensitive categories are described.

The krybit ransomware group claims to have published data belonging to Whiskey & Co., Inc. as part of a multi-victim leak post; the status is listed as 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and public disclosure of company data, though specific data categories and volume are not described in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company data (unspecified)

What the group claims

Whiskey & Co., Inc. (in Japanese: Whiskey & Co.株式会社) is a modern Japanese company founded on January 28, 2021. I...

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months 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 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 3, 2026; most recent post June 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 3, 2026whiskey.co.jp listed by krybiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by krybit

krybit has been linked to 48 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 Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, whiskey.co.jp is reported in Japan, a country with 88 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by krybit means whiskey.co.jp 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.