Trade Union Co
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Full breach record for Trade Union Co →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
tradeunionco.com tuc-dxb.com Trade Union Co. is a family-owned automotive spare parts wholesaler and retailer founded in 1960 in Beirut, Lebanon, with over 65 years of experience serving customers across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. The group operates through its Beirut headquarters and The Trade Union International LLC in Dubai, a 5000 square meter global re-export hub established in 2007 with offices also in Germany, Russia and Nigeria. With over 150 employees and 20 plus international aftermarket brands including Bosch, Mahle, ZF and Sachs, it supplies parts for European, Japanese and American passenger and commercial vehicles. Led by CEO Walid El Bissani and Head of Strategy Tarek Jamil, the company is a member of NEXUS Automotive International, the world's largest automotive distribution community. It regularly exhibits at Automechanika Dubai and Frankfurt, showcasing its growing brand portfolio and global logistics network.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 26, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
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.