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Soni Dwarkadas Virchand

bd_cbeb4fde4ed9410f · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 7, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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: OtherDiscovered: 2026-09-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

dwarkadasjewellers.com zoominfo.com/c/soni-dwarkadas-virchand/562586193 We have downloaded company's data: Confidential personal data and customer information, Financial Documents and Accounting, Business correspondence and legal documents, your databases, IT infrastructure information, Accesses and credentials, Technical documentation Soni Dwarkadas Virchand is a 110-year-old family jewellery house from Bhavnagar, Gujarat — founded in 1915 with a shop rented for just ₹7, carrying a freedom-fighter legacy (founder left the shop to join India's independence movement) and a dramatic heir story (a 16-year-old son with ₹22 saved the dynasty). Now in its 5th generation, it runs Bhavnagar's biggest jewellery mall (6,100 sq ft) plus a "House of Bangles" and tech-powered "Bridal Studio" with virtual try-on. Product scale: 25,000+ designs, signature collections (Bikaneri Treasure, Sara, Menaments), Trust moat: BIS hallmark, IGI/GIA certified diamonds,4.9/5 from 1,350+ Google reviews.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 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.

Source ceiling

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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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