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TENTAC ENTERPRISES LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 14, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for TENTAC ENTERPRISES 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.

Group activity: TechnologyDiscovered: 2026-09-15

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

tentac.co.jp zoominfo.com/c/tentac-co-ltd/458253608 TENTAC Co., Ltd world's leading maker of robotic tool changers — automatic docking systems that let industrial robots swap end-of-arm tools (welding torch → gripper → spray gun → grinder) mid-production without stopping the line. Founded 1968 as a Kobe Steel division, spun off independent in 1985; HQ in Kobe, Japan; ~35–40 employees, ~¥1.5–2B revenue — yet claims up to 80% global market share in robot docking systems. Technology: micron-level positioning repeatability, safety locks (tool stays attached even on pressure loss), and media-passing (electricity, pneumatics, hydraulics, water, signals) through the joint — payload classes from a few kilos to automotive body-welding weights; embedded as the de-facto standard by Japanese (Fanuc, Kawasaki, Yaskawa) and European (ABB, KUKA) robot integrators. Diversification from the same precision-mechanics core: inertial gyro sensors (marine, construction) ISO 9001/14001 certified.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 14, 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

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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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