Petroleum Telcom Communications
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Full breach record for Petroleum Telcom Communications →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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ptelcom.com Petroleum Telcom, Inc. (dba Telcom, Inc. / Telcom Communications) Southern California communications integrator founded in 1978 in Oxnard, CA — specializing in two-way radio for police/fire, microwave links, fiber optics, cell towers, and FCC licensing. Owned and led by Frank R. Hines (president since 1986), now a lean ~6-person shop (peak 35 in 1999), dealer for Motorola, Kenwood, and Bendix-King, with ~200 owned repeaters across CA/NV/AZ/UT. CA contractor license #620689 (B + C7) active since 1991, zero complaints, bonded and insured. Government track record is real and documented: Ventura County since 1982, Stanislaus County $1.2M, Port of LA police radio system $1.19M (2017–19), City of Oxnard up to $900K (2023–27), USGS, and 5 DoD contracts. Revenue not disclosed (est. $1–5M).
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 14, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
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Claim → filing
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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.