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Worralls

bd_9a50637277c86006 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

May 6, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Worralls →

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.

Group activity: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-05-06

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

worrall.co.nz W.H. Worrall & Co. Limited (Worralls) is New Zealand's leading distributor of world-class cycling and sporting brands, with roots going back to the early 1900s when it was founded by W.H. Worrall in Auckland. Today, the company is headquartered at 12 Hugo Johnston Drive, Penrose, Auckland, and remains a family-linked business formally registered since May 27, 1988. Worralls distributes an impressive portfolio of premium brands including Bell Helmets, Campagnolo, SRAM, Continental, Rock Shox, Cane Creek, Blackburn, San Marco, and Tacx, catering to both professional cyclists and recreational riders. The company has historically been a pioneer in the NZ cycling market — it was among the first to have Japanese manufacturers produce bicycles to English specifications

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

May 6, 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

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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  • victim claim
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  • materiality
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

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.

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