Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating
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Full breach record for Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating →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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tommygarner.com zoominfo.com/c/tommy-garner-air-conditioning--heating/140230813 Tommy Garner Air Conditioning & Heating (Tommy Garner, Inc., founded 1986 by Tommy and Chrissy Garner in Newport News, Virginia) is a family-owned Class A HVAC contractor serving the Hampton Roads region for 40 years. It provides commercial and residential air conditioning, heating, generators (authorized Honeywell dealer), water heaters, commercial refrigeration and indoor air-quality solutions — with 24-hour emergency service, 30-day service guarantees and 1-year installation warranties. Led today by founder Tommy Garner alongside his son Zach and daughter Lauren Jett, the company employs 35–39 people and was named Virginia Peninsula Chamber Small Business of the Year 2024 and a 2025 Best Places to Work in Virginia (the only HVAC firm on the list). Its reputation is exceptional — an A BBB rating and 5-star reviews from clients including the Virginia Living Museum
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Sep 29, 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.
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.