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PIO PIO

Claimed by Majinahanashi · listed 3 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 16, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Majinahanashi
Status
Data leaked
Country
Colombia
Sector
Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site
Aug 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pio Pio is a Colombian quick-service restaurant chain specializing in roasted chicken (pollo a la brasa), founded in 1971 by brothers Antonio and Leonardo Fernández. Operating multiple locations across Popayán and Cali, the company offers dine-in, delivery, and online ordering services.

Industry
Food Service & Quick-Service Restaurants
Address
Calle 6 No. 8-67, Popayán, Colombia
Founded
1971

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised in the leak post. The excerpt shows only a placeholder/connectivity message with no evidence of data access or operational impact.

The ransomware group majinahanashi claims to have attacked Pio Pio but provides no substantive details in the visible leak post excerpt. No specific data exfiltration or encryption is confirmed in the disclosed material.

low

What the group claims

TARGET: piopio.com.co REVENUE: $5m EMPLOYEES: 33 staff [LEAK / 6306 FILES]

The leak post

captured from the group's site
TOR CONNECTIONS MAY REQUIRE MORE TIME
The connection may be slow or interrupted.
ONE IMAGE AT A TIME

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About majinahanashi

Majinahanashi is an emerging ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed at least 12 victims across multiple continents in a relatively short operational window. At the time of this profile, no authoritative public attribution has been established by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations regarding the group's country of origin, affiliations with known threat actor clusters, or whether it operates under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent closed group. Based on available victimology data, the group has demonstrated a geographically diverse targeting pattern spanning Italy, the United States, Portugal, Switzerland, and Colombia, suggesting either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of affiliate infrastructure with varied regional reach. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, retail and e-commerce, healthcare, and technology, alongside victims whose sector classification remains unattributed, a distribution consistent with financially motivated actors prioritizing vulnerable or high-value targets over ideological selection criteria. No specific tools, initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, or extortion tactics have been publicly documented for this group by authoritative sources at this time, and no notable high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly reported. Majinahanashi should be considered an active and developing threat given its recent emergence, and organizations in its targeted geographies and sectors are advised to monitor credible threat intelligence channels for updated attribution and technical indicators as reporting matures. The group has been linked to 15 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 12, 2026; most recent post August 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 16, 2026PIO PIO listed by majinahanashion the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by majinahanashi

majinahanashi has been linked to 15 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full majinahanashi dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 18 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, PIO PIO is reported in Colombia, a country with 20 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by majinahanashi means PIO PIO 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 majinahanashi'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.