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Jumbo Electronics Qatar

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 9, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Jumbo Electronics Qatar

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sarcoma 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: 2024-10-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Jumbo Electronics Qatar About Video Home & Electronic Centre Video Home & Electronic Centre was founded by late Mr. Jassim Mohammed Sulaiman, two of his colleagues along with first employee & co-founder Mr. C.V. Rappai in the year 1980 in Qatar. Today Video Home & Electronic Centre has over 800 employees with annual revenue of over QAR 800 Million with a CAGR of 18% for the past 10 years. It conducts business under 4 major verticals: Retail, Distribution, B2B & MEP (Jumbo Electromech Engineering, Jumbo Security Equipments & Services, Jumbo Fire Protection & Safety Engineering). The retail arm includes Jumbo Electronics as its flagship retail chain, LG Brand shops & Harman House showrooms. Video Home & Electronic Centre is the sole distributor in Qatar for some of the world’s most renowned and favored brands like LG, Indesit, Ariston, Brother, JBL, Harman Kardon, Kyocera, Oscar, Kenwood, Morphy Richards, Maytag, Mr. Light, Mediacom, Rotpunkt, Symphony, Dometic and also some specialized brands for the MEP sector like Secutron, Bosch, Hikoki Power Tools, Interal, Siemens, Actron, Belden, Cisco etc. and it is constantly adding to this list of world class brands. It also has been providing world class office automation products from trusted brands over the years that make daily office tasks effortless with a range of office solutions from brands like Kyocera, Brother and LG that provide custom solutions for all office needs. Its strong B2B customer base includes government & semi-government institutions, private companies, contractors and consultants with whom it has built and nurtured a relationship of trust over 42 years. Video Home is supported by a state-of-the-art supply chain & logistics facilities and a capable after sales service infrastructure developed with best practices and latest technologies for efficient functioning. Its Service Centre is spread over 2200 sq

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 9, 2024

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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2024-07-09

sarcoma

According to ransomware.live, Sarcoma is a ransomware group that debuted in October 2024, immediately ranking among the top three most active groups globally and surpassing 116 documented victims by mid-2025, targeting mid-market companies across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, legal, and business services with roughly 50% of victims in the United States.

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