Air Canada
bd_c6957ace3efc3786 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2
Full breach record for Air Canada →5 incidents on fileThreat-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
Post text · scraped from the leak site
aircanada.com zoominfo.com/c/air-canada/3937344 Revenue $16.5 Billion Air Canada We have taken 51409 critical files! Canada's flag carrier and largest airline — founded in 1937 as Trans-Canada Air Lines, HQ'd in Montréal, ~37,000 employees, 45.3M passengers in 2025, and a founding Star Alliance member. Record revenue: $22.37B CAD in 2025 ($6.27B in Q2 2026 alone, +11%), but a fuel shock (+50.8% per litre) and $388M one-off charges pushed Q2 2026 to a $178M net loss — guidance cut, though load factor (87.5%) and Aeroplan (10M+ members), Cargo (+29%) and Sixth Freedom traffic stay strong. Its moat: the most aggressive fleet renewal in its history — A321XLRs with Canada's first lie-flat seats on a narrowbody, 787-10s and A350-1000s — unlocking "thin" long-haul routes no widebody could fly (Oslo, Shannon, Basel, Dubrovnik, Guangzhou) ahead of Super Bowl 2027 and the LA 2028 Olympics.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Sep 9, 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.
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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.