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ACE Consulting Engineers

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Apr 8, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ACE Consulting Engineers2 incidents on file

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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2026-04-08

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

ace-mb.com rocketreach.co/ace-consulting-engineers-moharrambakhoum-profile_b6a453d5c87891f3 CE Moharam Bakhoum is a privately-owned international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy and project management organization, founded in 1950. With over 70 years of experience, ACE has become one of the most accomplished and well-renowned companies worldwide. We operate primarily across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe and have an exceptional portfolio of mega-projects and award-winning designs in more than 35 countries. Our services span across the entire range of construction-related activities; planning, design, project management and construction supervision, to name a few

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 8, 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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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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