The Sole
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Full breach record for The Sole →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
thesole.com zoominfo.com/c/the-sole-proprietor/94159619 The Sole Supplier — UK sneaker and streetwear platform, founded in 2013 by George Sullivan in London. Started as a £100 blog in his parents' house — no investors, fully bootstrapped for 12+ years. Model: media content (release dates, reviews) + affiliate links to 50+ retailers — earns commission, holds no stock. Works with 30+ brands including Nike, adidas, UGG, Dr. Martens; claims to be Nike's top UK media partner. Scale: 4.5M monthly users, £400M+ lifetime sales driven for brands, with only ~35 staff. In 2026 relaunched its app as a "micro-social" shopping community for sneaker culture. Risks: thin margins, UK-only focus, and dependence on affiliate rates and brand budgets.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 31, 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
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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.