Balkan Polymers
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Full breach record for Balkan Polymers →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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balkanpolymers.com zoominfo.com/c/balkan-polymers/397725276 Balkan Polymers Serbian polymer recycling group founded in 2011 in Zrenjanin by Aleksandar Nikolić — a German-trained chemical engineer who returned home after careers at BASF and Nike — now running 4 plants (3 Serbia + 1 Slovakia) processing 26,000 tons of polymers per year (~$20–25M revenue est.). Full vertical integration: collection → optical sorting → shredding → hot washing → extrusion → compounding, producing rPP, rPE (LDPE/HDPE) and rPS granules for packaging, automotive and construction manufacturers across 10+ CE markets (Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Czechia...). Certified EuCertPlast — the EU traceability standard that unlocks "recycled content" claims; environmental math: ~52,000 tons CO2-equivalent saved and ~1.3 billion PET bottles rescued annually. Backed by state-level recognition (President Vučić cites it as a model diaspora business) and riding EU recycled-content directives (25% rPET by 2025, 30% by 2030
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Sep 14, 2026
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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.