DBU Construction
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Full breach record for DBU Construction →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
dbu-construction.com zoominfo.com/c/dbu-construction-inc/358513059 DBU Construction, Inc. (founded 1998 — "DBU" stands for Directional Boring and Utility, Chichester, New Hampshire) is a specialty contractor focused on trenchless horizontal directional drilling (HDD) and underground utility construction, plus roads, water/sewer, excavation and drainage work. It started drilling for Verizon Telecommunications and now serves municipalities, state and federal agencies (including Pease Air National Guard Base), utilities and developers across six New Hampshire counties and Maine, with roughly $15–25M annual revenue and 11–50 staff. In 2008 Jessica Towne took ownership, making it a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) and, since 2011, the first WBE in New Hampshire to offer directional drilling (also DBE-certified). Landmark projects include drilling a 1,500-foot waterline under Newfound Lake and gas-line bores under Route 102. Key strengths are its niche HDD expertise, government bid cert
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 29, 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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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.