Drinks Wines Spirits
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Full breach record for Drinks Wines Spirits →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
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drinks.com.tw zoominfo.com/c/drinks-wines--spirits-co-ltd/425924055 DRINKS / Oak Barrel (橡木桶洋酒, Drinks Wines & Spirits Co., Ltd.) (founded 1993, Taipei) is Taiwan's largest liquor retail and import chain — 33–35 stores nationwide with about NT$2 billion (US$60M) annual revenue and 200–300 staff. Founded by "godfather of imported liquor" Chen Chun-an (died February 2026 at 80), it pioneered the wine-tasting culture in Taiwan through its Wine Party magazine, six tasting classrooms and a discount-store format with near-franchise store-manager economics. Beyond retail, it holds exclusive Taiwan agency rights for major whisky brands (Arran, Bladnoch, Raasay, Benromach, Paul John, Lauder's) and wines (Mouton Cadet, Lanson, Santa Rita), and releases exclusive single-cask bottlings for the local market. A 2008 attempt to expand into Shanghai failed within six months, and a pricing war with rival JT Mall made headlines. Since December 2025 the chairman has been Wu Mei-ling, leading a family-own
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Sep 29, 2026
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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.