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GILDE Handwerk Macrander GmbH & Co. KG

bd_0ab11c36303ba235 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 4, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for GILDE Handwerk Macrander GmbH & Co. KG

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Aurora 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.

Group activity: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2026-08-04

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

[wholesale] GILDE Handwerk Macrander GmbH & Co. KG is a family-owned German Mittelstand group headquartered in Bocholt, Nordrhein-Westfalen. The GILDE Gruppe operates across wholesale trade in gifts, home accessories, and furniture through brands including GILDE Handwerk, Fink Living, and HAKU Möbel, with 50+ legal entities spanning Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, the UK, and Hong Kong. The exposed material includes: <censored> 148+ personal ID document scans — Personalausweise (national ID cards), Reispässe (passports), Führerscheine (driver's licences), and Heiratsurkunden (marriage certificates) for employees, directors, and family members. Names range from warehouse staff to the CEO. ELSTER tax certificates for 50+ entities — the digital keys for filing tax returns with the German Finanzamt, plus personal certificates for directors and family members. Enables fraudulent VAT returns and income tax filings. <censored> Full employee payroll records (2006–2025) — tax IDs (Steuer-IDs), social security numbers, bank accounts, salary details, sick notes (Krankmeldungen), and disciplinary records for an estimated 200–400 current and 200–500 former employees across all entities. 20 years of consolidated financial records — balance sheets, P&L statements, bank reconciliations, loan documentation, shareholder agreements, and capital contribution records for the entire group from 2004 to 2025. 1,800+ Access databases — inventory valuations, customer lists, supplier terms, product pricing, and order history spanning the entire commercial operation.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 4, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

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.

Source ceiling

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About this groupFirst seen 2026-04-17

aurora

According to ransomware.live, Aurora is a ransomware group associated with a multi-purpose Go-based malware distributed by multiple criminal teams from mid-2022, also sold as an infostealer/botnet under the same name on underground forums.

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