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Usina Sao Jose Do Pinheiro

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 24, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2025-12-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

www.usjp.com.br https://www.zoominfo.com/c/usina-sao-jose-do-pinheiro/465258703 Located in the municipality of Laranjeiras, Sergipe State, the São José do Pinheiro Sugar Mill is a century-old company that provides excellent service in the commercialization and manufacture of sugar, alcohol, molasses, and energy generation for the entire Brazilian Northeast and some European and African countries Its formation stems from the founding of the São José sugar mill along with other mills in the region by Albano do Prado Pimentel Franco, as recorded in his inventory dated 1928. Recently, in the 2014/2015 harvest, Usina Pinheiro achieved its largest agricultural harvest, harvesting 1,032,155 tons of sugarcane. This harvest also saw the highest ethanol production, totaling 9,140,830 liters of hydrated alcohol and 15,311,764 liters of anhydrous alcohol. The constant pursuit of quality and concern for food safety led Usina Pinheiro to obtain the ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 22000:2005 certifications

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Dec 24, 2025

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.

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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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