SAS H2O MICHEL
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Full breach record for SAS H2O MICHEL →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
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h2o-michel.fr huissiers-bordeaux.com SAS H2O MICHEL is a French commissaire de justice firm (public judicial officer — serving court documents, enforcing judgments, debt recovery) created in 2018 and based in Tours/Chinon, Val de Loire (Indre-et-Loire). It is led by President Alexandra Michel and operates 5 offices (Tours, Chinon, Bourgueil, Langeais, Château-la-Vallière) with a small team of 3–7 employees. Revenue grew rapidly from €223K in 2018 to €631K in 2019 (+183%), with a strong 16.4% net margin (€103.5K net profit, ROE 85.8%) — though all accounts since 2020 are filed confidentially (estimated €600K–1M today). The firm is part of H2O Réseau National, France's first national network of commissaires de justice specialized in debt recovery (group network: 160+ staff, 6 major offices). Core services: enforcement of court decisions (saisie-attribution, wage garnishment, evictions, property seizures), debt collection, legal constats, and auction sales.
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Oct 6, 2026
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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.
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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.