Yapı Merkezi
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Full breach record for Yapı Merkezi →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
Post text · scraped from the leak site
ym.com.tr rocketreach.co/yapi-merkezi-profile_b5c7f2fff42e0db7 YM Group is a Turkish family-owned manufacturing and brand house founded in 1986 in Istanbul by Yüksel Mehmet Yıldırım, built on a flexible-packaging plant in Çorlu (Halal-certified, exporting to Europe/MENA). Its crown jewel: it owns and operates the legendary American trail-running brand Ultimate Direction (the 1935 inventor of the hydration pack) — designing, manufacturing in Turkey and distributing it worldwide — plus its own jewelry line Ela by YM and investment arm YM Capital. The group follows the classic ladder: manufacturing → own brands → capital, with Halal certification as a niche edge for Gulf/Asian markets. Small core team (~110), private, low-profile, no public financials. Bottom line: a quiet Turkish industrial family that turned commodity packaging profits into ownership of an iconic American outdoor brand.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Sep 7, 2026
Claim posted
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Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
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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.