Misr Chemical Industries
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Full breach record for Misr Chemical Industries →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
mci.com.eg Misr Chemical Industries Co. (MCI), founded in 1959 and headquartered in Alexandria, Egypt, is a publicly listed chemical manufacturer on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX). As the oldest Egyptian producer of liquid caustic soda, chlorine gas, and derivatives, the company specializes in manufacturing chemicals including hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide solutions, and compressed hydrogen for domestic and regional markets. MCI serves industrial clients across Egypt and the Middle East, focusing on meeting local demand while exporting surplus production to support regional chemical supply chains.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
May 8, 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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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.