techradar.com 22.08.2025
Qilin claims another victim, threatens to release valuable information online.

• Qilin adds Nissan Creative Box to its data leak site
• It claims to have taken more than 4TB of sensitive files
• It's like stealing an invention from an inventor, researchers claim
  Nissan Creative Box, the creative arm of the Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer, was hit with a ransomware attack recently, and lost plenty of sensitive data in the incident.

Given the nature of Creative Box’s work, the stolen data could hurt the company and dull its competitive blade, if released to the wild, experts have said.

The company is a specialized satellite design studio forming part of Nissan’s global design network. Established in 1987 to be a creative sandbox for emerging designers, where they can create bold concepts that usually stray away from mainstream car design, it is often described as Nissan’s “design think tank”, as it does not churn out large volumes of visible work, but still retains a significant role within the network.

techradar.com - 4 july
Almost a year later, the company comes forward with more details

• IdeaLab confirms it suffered a data breach, offers identity theft protection and credit monitoring
• Recently-departed ransomware operators Hunters International took responsibility
• The decryption key were recently published
  Technology startup incubator IdeaLab has confirmed suffered a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive company files.

The organization confirmed the news after an extensive investigation that took almost a year, noting in a data breach notification letter sent earlier to affected individuals the attack most likely took place on October 4 2024, when cybercriminals accessed its network and stole sensitive information on current and former employees, current and former support service contractors, and their dependents.

We don’t know exactly how many people were affected by this attack, or what the nature of the data is. IdeaLab just said the attackers took people’s names, in combination with “variable data”.