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Exacta Optech Labcenter

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 28, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Exacta Optech Labcenter

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.

Group activity: HealthcareDiscovered: 2026-08-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

exactaoptech.com zoominfo.com/c/exactaoptech-labcenter-spa/426158257 Exacta + Optech Labcenter S.p.A. is an Italian one-stop distributor of instruments, consumables and reagents for scientific laboratories, founded in 1974/75 by Gian Amico Alessandrini and headquartered at Via Bosco 21, San Prospero (Modena). It supplies lab optics and instruments under its own Optech brand (biological/stereo/inverted microscopes, spectrophotometers, refractometers, polarimeters, micropipettes, cuvettes), chemicals, lab furniture, and designs turnkey laboratories; market segments include pharma, food, petrochemical/Oil&Gas, environment, education and oenology — where it is Hach-Lange's worldwide official partner. Its 1,500-page catalogue and e-shop list ~100,000 items; the team of ~35–45 includes 7 dedicated service technicians, backed by agreements with Avantor, Honeywell and LLG and the acquisitions of Ing. C. Bullio (2006) and Alkimia (2022). In 2024 the company rebranded from EXA

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 28, 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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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

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.

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