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ZANINI S.P.A.

bd_33a9e93c8cc21ae0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 7, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ZANINI S.P.A.

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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2026-09-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

zanini.com zoominfo.com/c/zanini/359207305 Zanini is the global market leader in automotive wheel trim — a Spanish family firm founded in 1965 in Barcelona, owned by the Torras family since 1976, with 1,800 employees across 12 plants on 3 continents. It makes 1 in 4 wheel covers sold worldwide (~100M units/year) for virtually every major OEM, plus grilles, emblems, EV charge-port covers and pedestrian airbag parts. Its strategic pivot: radar-transparent, heated & illuminated front emblems (radomes) — first launched on VW Atlas, now featured on the new Mercedes CLA (2025) — the key sensor window for the autonomous-driving era. Proprietary tech: ZANICHROME® metallization (chrome-look without chrome, "night & day" effects, electromagnetic transparency) + 17 patent families and TactoTek IMSE license (2024). Funded privately (€81.5M debt raise, Oct 2025), chairman Joan Miquel Torras, CEO Jordi Torras (twice a Dakar Rally racer).

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 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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