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GID GmbH

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 15, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for GID GmbH

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2025-08-02

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

GID GmbH is a system house operating throughout Germany based in Cologne. As a system integrator, GID advises and offers solutions in the areas of infrastructure, HCI, storage, backup, e-mail/file management, deduplication, server and virtualization. In the last few years, there have been interesting developments in the field of HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) with which GID is very successful. With the HCI systems, customers are amongst other things able to operate complete VDI landscapes. The HCI installations are rounded off with the associated backup solutions. Many years of experience and certified specialists in sales and technology realize the projects and thus keep their customers' IT on the road to success.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 15, 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 2023-05-22

lynx

According to ransomware.live, Lynx is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in mid-2024 as a rebrand of INC Ransomware (whose source code was sold for $300,000 on the RAMP forum), claiming ~300 victims across manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation with an 80/20 profit split for affiliates.

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