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Biotipo

bd_ecea64db103a350f · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 7, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Biotipo2 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: Retail & E-CommerceDiscovered: 2026-09-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

biotipo.com.br zoominfo.com/c/biotipo-jeans/431018059 Biotipo Brazil's largest ready-stock ("pronta-entrega") jeans manufacturers — an Akkari-family company (Confecções Alta Moda Ltda, CNPJ 04.273.385/0001-11) founded in 2001, with the brand active in jeanswear since 1980, HQ'd in the legendary Brás wholesale district of São Paulo plus an industrial plant in Itapevi. Its model: B2B wholesale at fashion-week speed — weekly collections, minimum orders of just one "grade" (10–12 pieces), 15,000+ m2 of production/logistics space (70% outsourced), and distribution to 15,000+ retail points across Brazil (women's, men's, teen and plus-size lines). 10+ consecutive years in Top of Mind as one of Brazil's most-remembered jeans brands; R$30M+ share capital, 1,001–5,000 employees by registry classification. Bottom line: the quiet volume king of Brazilian denim — no D2C glamour, just industrial speed, perfect fit and a brand that "sells itself" in more stores than almost any local competitor.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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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  • victim claim
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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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