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Ransomware group thegentlemen hits Sarku Japan
Sarku Japan — a retail & e-commerce target operating in US has been listed by the thegentlemen ransomware group on 2026-09-14. The information below reflects what the threat actor has publicly claimed on their leak site; the details have not been independently verified.
Incident Report
| Target Organization | Sarku Japan |
|---|---|
| Threat Group | thegentlemen |
| Summary | sarkujapan.com zoominfo.com/c/sarku-japan/33898946 SARKU Japan Japan's #1 independent service & wholesale network for foreign cars — founded 1993 in Chiba by Texan David J. Jones (in Japan since 1989) after seeing that owners of European/American cars in Japan were "orphans": parts take 6–8 weeks from Europe, service is scarce. SARKU built the full foreign-car infrastructure: 9 service centers (8 Kanto + Nagoya), a wholesale yard of ~4,000 imported cars (one of Japan's two largest), a parts warehouse of 30,000+ SKUs worth ¥700M+ (also one of Japan's two largest), plus procurement/export arms via US offices in Seattle (since 1997) and Florida — selling 20,000+ cars and serving 60,000+ active customers (~150 staff from 15 countries; ~120K monthly site visitors, 170K+ downloaded car-buying guides). Since 2018 it's owned by the Netherlands' Louwman Group (Europe's largest family-run dealer group, est. 1923). Motto: "Foreign cars. Japanese precision." |
| Date of Breach | 2026-09-14 |
| Discovery Date | 2026-09-15 |
| Region | US |
| Target Domain | sarkujapan.com |
| Business Sector | Retail & E-Commerce |
| Severity | MEDIUM |
Claim by thegentlemen
sarkujapan.com zoominfo.com/c/sarku-japan/33898946 SARKU Japan Japan's #1 independent service & wholesale network for foreign cars — founded 1993 in Chiba by Texan David J. Jones (in Japan since 1989) after seeing that owners of European/American cars in Japan were "orphans": parts take 6–8 weeks from Europe, service is scarce. SARKU built the full foreign-car infrastructure: 9 service centers (8 Kanto + Nagoya), a wholesale yard of ~4,000 imported cars (one of Japan's two largest), a parts warehouse of 30,000+ SKUs worth ¥700M+ (also one of Japan's two largest), plus procurement/export arms via US offices in Seattle (since 1997) and Florida — selling 20,000+ cars and serving 60,000+ active customers (~150 staff from 15 countries; ~120K monthly site visitors, 170K+ downloaded car-buying guides). Since 2018 it's owned by the Netherlands' Louwman Group (Europe's largest family-run dealer group, est. 1923). Motto: "Foreign cars. Japanese precision."
Posted by the thegentlemen threat actor on its public leak site. This is the group's own statement and has not been independently verified by HackerFeeds.
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