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Brebur

bd_bad158a88a07a31b · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 28, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Brebur

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: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-08-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

breburltd.co.uk zoominfo.com/c/brebur-ltd/445718566 Brebur Ltd is a UK specialist subcontractor for steel frame systems (SFS), dry-lining, partitions, plastering and suspended ceilings, founded in 2002 (trading as Ace Fire Solutions Ltd until Dec 2012); it is based at Unit 1 Capitol Close, Dodworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. It delivers projects across the North of England for main contractors such as BAM, Kier and Willmott Dixon, and also installs lead-lined radiation-protection partitions for hospitals and acoustic raft/baffle solutions. It holds long-standing manufacturer partnerships (British Gypsum, Siniat/Knauf, and Ecophon's EPIC status since 2016) and has won a Gold National Quality Award plus BAM's Regional Contractor of the Year. With ~20 staff and net assets of ~£2.7m (2025), it sits under the Brebur Holdings / Brebur Group Ltd structure created in 2024 (directors Jamie Brenton and Vincenzo Lilley);

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 28, 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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