Lydenburg Toyota
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Full breach record for Lydenburg Toyota →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
Post text · scraped from the leak site
lydenburg.toyota.co.za Lydenburg Toyota is a Toyota dealership in Lydenburg (Mashishing), Mpumalanga, South Africa, part of the Toyota South Africa Motors dealer network selling new Toyota and Lexus vehicles, certified used cars, service, parts and financial services. The town is also home to Toyota SA Manufacturing, the largest Toyota plant in Africa, assembling Hilux, Fortuner and Corolla Cross with engines and components exported to over 40 countries including the United States. Toyota SA Motors holds 24.2 percent of the South African vehicle market and exported 187 billion rand in FY2023, with 8500 direct employees across its plants. The company invested 2.43 billion rand in hybrid technology and is developing a 2.2 billion dollar Mbombela megaproject including housing, schools and hospitals around the Lydenburg plant. Corolla Cross production from Lydenburg began exports to the US in April 2024.
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Oct 26, 2026
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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.