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Conax Technologies

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 23, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Conax Technologies →

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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2026-10-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

conaxtechnologies.com Conax Technologies US manufacturer founded in 1952 in Buffalo, New York, producing temperature sensors like thermocouples and RTDs together with high-pressure compression seal fittings for extreme conditions. Owned by the private equity firm May River Capital, it has around 200 to 500 employees and estimated revenue of roughly 41 million dollars. Its products operate in extreme temperatures up to 2000 Fahrenheit and pressures up to 100,000 psi across aerospace, defense, semiconductor, medical and energy markets. The company runs a 101,000 square foot plant with 150 machines, holds AS9100, NADCAP and ISO certifications, and has over 45 patents with 100 million products installed worldwide. Under CEO John LeFevre since 2023 it is expanding through acquisitions such as Vulcan Electric and Sorregosa Spain plus growth in semiconductor and medical verticals.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 23, 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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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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