Chip7
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Full breach record for Chip7 →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
chip7.pt zoominfo.com/c/chip7/507351948 We have downloaded your company's data: Confidential personal data and customer information, Financial Documents and Accounting, Business correspondence and legal documents, your databases, e-mails, IT infrastructure information, Accesses and credentials, Technical documentation and other data about you company. Chip7 is Portugal's largest IT & gaming retail franchise network — born in 1994 as a tiny Porto PC-assembler, crashed with its holding's 2010 bankruptcy, had its brand seized and sold by state bank CGD, then reborn as a franchise federation run by master franchisor Strongpage (just ~9 employees owning only the brand, website and buying power). Today: 90+ independent franchised stores covering all of Portugal, ~€32M network billing (2023, +23%), 70,000+ products, 1,100+ brands online, ~$10.6M e-commerce sales.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 7, 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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Compliance clock
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Evidence ladder
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.