Mercantile & Investment Corporation Bolivia S.A.
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Full breach record for Mercantile & Investment Corporation Bolivia S.A. →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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Mercantile & Investment Corporation Bolivia S.A. is a Bolivian broker-dealer and investment house founded in 1983 in La Paz, licensed by ASFI, the national financial regulator, with over 43 years of experience in the Bolivian capital markets. It is the investment arm of international Grupo MIC, offering securities trading, foreign exchange, financial leasing, repo operations, centralized securities custody and discretionary portfolio management. Led by Managing Director Alberto Barrón Michel, it serves institutional investors and corporate clients seeking access to Bolivia's Bolsa Boliviana de Valores. Bolivia's capital market is one of the smallest in Latin America, giving licensed players like MIC a niche with limited competition. Key strengths are full ASFI licensing, international group backing and a comprehensive financial product suite spanning brokerage, leasing and asset management. The firm positions itself as a trusted long-term wealth protector in a market dominated by trade
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 26, 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.