Akatake Engineering
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Full breach record for Akatake Engineering →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
akatake.co.jp crunchbase.com/organization/akatake-engineering-co-ltd Akatake Engineering Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturing company based in Numazu, Shizuoka, established in 1971. They specialize in powder handling technology, providing comprehensive solutions for the storage, feeding, weighing, and transportation of bulk powders. The company designs and manufactures custom industrial equipment and container systems for various industries dealing with fine particulate materials.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 21, 2026
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
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
Not assessable
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- Pressthegentlemenbd_a724a955994d63882026-08-13 · +8dCandidate
Filing propagation · 2 filings
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Aug 13, last Aug 21 — a 8-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
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.
Source ceiling
- actor name
- victim claim
- ransom/leak status
- discovery date
- materiality
- notification
- affected count
- confirmed data types
- compliance clock
The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
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.