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Cherry Bekaert

bd_ce0b7f4ecf0d4c11 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 28, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Cherry Bekaert →3 incidents on file

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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-10-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

cbh.com Revenue $446.7 Million CBH Group Australia's largest grain cooperative, founded in 1933 in Perth and owned by over 3,700 farmer shareholders across Western Australia. It operates the world's largest grain export network with around 200 receival sites, 20 million tons of storage capacity and four export terminals at Kwinana, Albany, Geraldton and Esperance. Each year it handles approximately 20 million tons of grain and exports 15 to 17 million tons, mainly wheat, barley and canola to Asia, the Middle East and beyond. Led by CEO Brendan White, it has invested over 2 billion dollars in infrastructure modernization including rail upgrades, solar energy and digital platforms like the CBH App. The cooperative is financially strong with a BBB credit rating and returns profits to farmers through patronage dividends. It operates its own rail fleet of 360 wagons, runs quality testing laboratories at every site and is expanding port capacity to load Panamax vessels at Kwinana and Albany.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 28, 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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