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GIO Dental

bd_a5a59b8db30fa862 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 28, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for GIO Dental →

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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2026-10-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

giodentalsl.com GIO Dental SL is a modern dental clinic and laboratory founded by Nigerian dentist Dr. Gift Nwachukwu Obiorah in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with an additional location in Koidu, Kono District. It is Sierra Leone's first fully integrated dental provider offering clinical treatment, a prosthetics laboratory, dental technology education and equipment repair under one brand. Services span general and cosmetic dentistry, orthodontics, oral surgery, custom prosthetics fabrication and community oral health programs. Led by founder Dr. Gio, the company trains local dental technicians and runs outreach campaigns to make premium dental care accessible across the country. Its vertical model combining treatment, manufacturing and education is unique in the Sierra Leonean healthcare market. It also provides equipment repair and supply services to other dental clinics in the region.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 28, 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

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.

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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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