SHARP OFFICE HOLDINGS, LLC
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Full breach record for SHARP OFFICE HOLDINGS, LLC →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
sharpoffice.com.au zoominfo.com/c/sharp-office/1306869482 Sharp Office is one of Australia's longest-running B2B office suppliers — heritage dating to 1935 (John Sharp Business Systems, Sydney), merged with Stafford Menser in 2011 into Sharp Office Systems Pty Ltd, HQ in Ingleburn NSW, serving clients Australia-wide. It's a one-stop B2B platform: 25,000+ stationery SKUs, office furniture, print & copy (HP, Canon, Ricoh, Kyocera), laptops/tech, plus Managed Print Services and managed IT — "one bill, one delivery, one invoice" for businesses. Its moats: ISO 9001:2015 + EcoVadis certification, NSW government supplier status, credit accounts with 14-day terms and personal account managers. Not related to Japan's Sharp Corporation — a fully independent Australian house. Bottom line: a 90-year-old quiet institutional survivor that evolved from typewriters to managed IT, winning government and club contracts through reliability rather than flash.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Sep 7, 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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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.