Was joycity hit by ransomware?

joycity was listed by the AuditTeam ransomware operation (South Korea), 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 AuditTeam ransomware group?

AuditTeam 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 joycity breach?

AuditTeam published data attributed to joycity. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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joycity

Claimed by AuditTeam · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: AuditTeam
Status: Data leaked
Country: South Korea
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Joycity is a South Korean game developer and publisher listed on the KOSDAQ, founded in 1994. The company is known for pioneering the hip-hop-themed sports genre with its FreeStyle series and later pivoting to mobile strategy games such as Gunship Battle: Total Warfare and Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War. International markets account for over 70% of its revenue, and it is actively expanding into Web3 and cross-platform titles including a Resident Evil collaboration.

Industry: Mobile & Online Game Development & Publishing
Founded: 1994

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (confirmed exfiltration) from a publicly listed technology/gaming company with global operations and intellectual property partnerships. While no regulated PII at scale or government/medical data is explicitly mentioned, the confirmed publication of business data from a KOSDAQ-listed company with major IP deals represents significant business and reputational harm.

The AuditTeam ransomware group claims to have attacked Joycity and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration 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

Company internal data
Game development assets
Business records

What the group claims

Joycity is a prominent South Korean game developer and publisher founded in 1994 and listed on the KOSDAQ. Renowned for its innovation and global reach, the company originally pioneered the hip-hop-themed sports genre with its self-developed FreeStyle series, which became a cultural milestone for players across Asia. In the mobile era, Joycity successfully pivoted to the Strategy (SLG) genre, producing high-revenue titles like Gunship Battle: Total Warfare and Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War, with international markets consistently accounting for over 70% of its total revenue. Currently, Joycity is actively expanding into Web3 technologies and major cross-platform projects. Its blockbuster collaboration with Capcom and Aniplex, Resident Evil Survival Unit, has already surpassed 5 million global downloads as of early 2026, demonstrating the company’s robust R&D and operational expertise in managing world-class intellectual properties.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

/// DATA EXPOSURE TERMINAL /// [ DATA EXPOSURE LOGS ] [ ABOUT US ] [ CONTACT ] We audit. We alert. We disclose. Tr***ic AUDIT ID: D6A9F21B7E4C3A59 DISCOVERY DATE: 2026-05-10 [ STATUS: REMEDIATION WINDOW ] --:--:--:-- [ COOPERATION REACHED ] // DATA PURGED FROM SERVERS // SECURITY REMEDIATION VERIFIED // ENTITY COMPLIANCE CONFIRMED [ STATUS: PAID ] [ COOPERATION REACHED ] // DATA PURGED FROM SERVERS // SECURITY REMEDIATION VERIFIED // ENTITY COMPLIANCE CONFIRMED [ STATUS: PAID ] [ COOPERATION REACHED ] // DATA PURGED FROM SERVERS // SECURITY REMEDIATION VERIFIED // ENTITY COMPLIANCE CONFIRMED [ STATUS: PAID ] joycity AUDIT ID: B7E1F9A2D4C86352 DISCOVERY DATE: 2026-03-05 [ STATUS: PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY ] Kawasaki Motors Philippines Corporation AUDIT ID: 5B9F3E1A2D8C6B4E DISCOVERY DATE: 2026-02-21 [ STATUS: PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY ]

Sources

Leak posthttp://6tdqqaxftvradka5d2frzgwixis7fmro7rfh4ettzcx7jfapkebe6jad.onion/entity/8672CA95161255F7

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About AuditTeam

AuditTeam is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in April 2026 and appears to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, though their targeting of victims primarily across China, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand suggests possible regional focus or language capabilities in Asian markets. With only five documented victims to date, AuditTeam appears to operate as a smaller-scale ransomware operation, showing particular interest in manufacturing and technology sectors alongside unspecified target types. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited scale of operations, there are no publicly documented major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions against them by agencies such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms. The group's current operational status remains unknown given the sparse public intelligence available, and their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been comprehensively documented by reputable security researchers as of available reporting. The group has been linked to 15 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2026; most recent post June 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: audit team.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 8, 2026joycity listed by AuditTeamon the group's public leak site

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, joycity is reported in South Korea, a country with 17 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AuditTeam means joycity 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, KrCERT/CC (South Korea), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on AuditTeam'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.