Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 424 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026Nrt India listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nrt India is reported in IN, a country with 239 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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Nrt India

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 15 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: IN
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NRT India is a premier IIT-JEE and NEET competitive exam coaching institute headquartered in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, originally founded in 1997 and re-established in 2010. It operates study centres in Lucknow, Barabanki, Dehradun, and Pratapgarh, serving thousands of students preparing for engineering and medical entrance examinations. The institute claims 1,000+ selections in IIT-JEE and NEET over the last five years.

Industry: Education & Test Preparation (IIT-JEE & NEET Coaching)
Address: 17/10 Near Munshipulia, Indira Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226016, India
Founded: 1997

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration. As a coaching institute handling student PII (minors included, given courses for grades V–XII), admission records, and contact details at scale across multiple centres, the exposure constitutes significant regulated/sensitive personal data of a potentially vulnerable population.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked NRT India and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though no ransom amount or explicit data size was stated in the post. The nature of the exfiltrated data has not been detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Admissions data
Contact information
Internal institute documents

What the group claims

nrtindia.com zoominfo.com/c/nrt-india/372321597 NRT India is a premier IIT-JEE and NEET coaching institute headquartered in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was originally founded in 1997 by Shree Indu Shekhar Shukla under the name "NRT," and re-established on August 30–31, 2010 by Sir A.N. Pandey, who previously served as Head of Department of Physics at the same institute. The institute now operates study centers in Lucknow, Barabanki, Dehradun, and Pratapgarh

Sources

Victim sitenrtindia.com

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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