Kooltronic
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Full breach record for Kooltronic →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
kooltronic.com Kooltronic, Inc. is a private, family-owned manufacturer of enclosure cooling products (air conditioners, heat exchangers, fans) founded in 1956 in Princeton, NJ, now based in Pennington, NJ on a 170,000 sq ft facility powered by 90% solar energy. Owned by the Freedman family since 1970 (President: Barry Freedman), the company generates estimated annual revenue of $35–45M with 58–87 employees (~$650K–$750K revenue per employee — very high for a manufacturer). Kooltronic invented the world's first closed-loop enclosure air conditioner in 1967 and holds a US patent for Hazardous Location AC systems (NEC Class I Div 1&2), giving it a unique market niche. It offers the industry's widest range — 2,000–30,000 BTU/H units across all NEMA ratings — with 100% in-house production, UL-certified testing labs, and ISO 9001:2015 certification. The company is women-owned (WBE) (CEO Anne Freedman), holds $20.5M in 401(k) assets (stable finances), and is expanding into fast-growing BESS
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 6, 2026
Claim posted
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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.
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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.