Was Biotipo Jeans hit by ransomware?

Biotipo Jeans was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Brazil), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Biotipo Jeans breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Biotipo Jeans. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Biotipo Jeans

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 7, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Brazil
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Sep 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Biotipo Jeans is Brazil's largest ready-stock jeans manufacturer, operating under Confecções Alta Moda Ltda (CNPJ 04.273.385/0001-11, founded 2001 as corporate entity). The brand has been active in jeanswear since 1980 and operates a B2B wholesale model from its headquarters in São Paulo's Brás district and production facility in Itapevi, distributing to over 15,000 retail points nationwide across women's, men's, teen, and plus-size lines.

Industry: Apparel Manufacturing & Wholesale Distribution
Address: Brás wholesale district, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (HQ); industrial plant in Itapevi, SP, Brazil
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1980

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post is a company listing/announcement with no evidence of data exfiltration, encryption, proof files, or operational impact. No breach details are disclosed.

The threat actor claims to have attacked Biotipo Jeans but the leak post contains no explicit statement of what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or compromised. The post is primarily a company profile with no attack details or proof of breach provided.

low

What the group claims

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.

Sources

Victim sitebiotipo.com.br

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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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 838 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 7, 2026Biotipo Jeans listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 838 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Biotipo Jeans is reported in Brazil, a country with 209 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Biotipo Jeans appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT.br (Brazil), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on thegentlemen's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.