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T. Choithram And Sons, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 29, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for T. Choithram And Sons, LLC

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blacknevas 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2025-10-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Choithrams is a prominent grocery retail chain and distributor in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman, established in 1974. The company offers a wide range of over 500 quality products, including tea, spices, nuts, and grains, all meeting HACCP certification for food safety. Known for its vast logistics and distribution network, Choithrams collaborates with hundreds of major FMCG brands, servicing a majority of food outlets in the region. Their commitment to trust, innovation, and sustainability has positioned them as a partner of choice in the grocery sector.As a bonus, we offer scanned documents of all key employees of the company's IT department:https://gofile.io/d/QwY56BA large volume of SQL and SAP data is also available. Passports for nearly all employees are available. We will also provide access to the corporate network and assign an IT department employee who will be forced to cooperate due to the existence of highly compromising information against them.write to us for information:[REDACTED-EMAIL]

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 29, 2025

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 2023-04-24

blacknevas

According to ransomware.live, BlackNevas is a ransomware group first observed in November 2024, believed to be derived from the Trigona ransomware family, targeting telecommunications, manufacturing, medical, and legal industries primarily in Asia-Pacific, the UK, Italy, and Lithuania using double-extortion with a dual AES/RSA encryption scheme.

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