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ControlGMC

bd_9db02b6d8a97e88d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 12, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ControlGMC

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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2026-03-12

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

controlgmc.com zoominfo.com/c/controlgmc/346496163 Control GMC specializes in designing and manufacturing fully automatic food packing machines and cup filling lines. Their versatile equipment is suitable for various food products, including sauces, cheeses, and salads, and can handle a wide range of cup, tub, and tray sizes and shapes. The company's innovative machines allow for quick changeovers and efficient operations, achieving high fill rates while ensuring high-quality packaging. Their intended clients include businesses in the food industry seeking reliable and efficient packaging solutions

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 12, 2026

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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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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