Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 98 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 26, 2026sitoy.com listed by Abysson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, sitoy.com is reported in HK, a country with 23 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Sitoy Group Holdings Limited

listed as sitoy.com · Claimed by Abyss · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 26, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Abyss
Status: Data leaked
Country: HK
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Jan 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sitoy Group Holdings Limited, founded in 1968 and listed in Hong Kong, is one of the world's leading OEM/ODM manufacturers of branded bridge-to-luxury handbags, small leather goods, and travel goods, serving major international fashion houses. The company also operates its own retail brands including Tuscan's and Fashion & Joy across Hong Kong and mainland China. Its principal manufacturing operations are based in Dongguan, China.

Industry: Luxury & Bridge Handbags, Leather Goods & Travel Goods Manufacturing
Address: Houjie, Dongguan, Guangdong, China (principal manufacturing); listed in Hong Kong S.A.R.
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1968

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration from a significant multinational manufacturing and retail company. This likely includes business-sensitive data such as client lists (major luxury brands), financial records, and employee PII, representing substantial business and reputational harm.

The Abyss ransomware group claims to have attacked Sitoy Group and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data. No specific ransom amount or data volume has been stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Manufacturing records
Customer and client information
Financial records
Employee information

What the group claims

Founded in 1968, Sitoy Group is engaged in the design, research, development, manufacturing, sale, wholesaling, and retailing of handbags, small leather goods, travel goods, and footwear products.

Sources

Victim sitesitoy.com

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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