Brancoptica
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Full breach record for Brancoptica →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
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brancoptica.pt Brancóptica, Lda is a family-owned optical retail chain founded in 1961 in Cartaxo, Portugal (Ribatejo region) by José Francisco Branco de Oliveira, originally as "Oculista do Cartaxo." Now led by the founder's son Rui Oliveira, the company operates 20+ stores across three districts — Santarém, Lisbon, and Leiria — under the banner of the international Opticalia alliance (part of EssilorLuxottica). Beyond selling eyewear (Ray-Ban, Gucci, and designer brands), it provides professional optometry and orthoptics services with a team of 20+ qualified specialists, and runs its own e-commerce store on Shopify. The company employs roughly 31–51 people with estimated revenue in the €2–10 million range. It is a rare example of a family optical chain that has survived and grown amid the mass decline of independent opticians in Portugal, winning the ÓpticaPro 2024 Social Responsibility Award.
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Sep 21, 2026
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.