Was The Coffee Bean hit by ransomware?

The Coffee Bean was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Malaysia), 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 The Coffee Bean breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to The Coffee Bean. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Malaysia

listed as The Coffee Bean · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Malaysia
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Aug 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Malaysia is a café chain operating over 150 locations across Malaysia. The company runs an official digital portal (coffeebean.com.my) that enables customers to browse menus, access promotions, manage loyalty rewards via the MyCBTL app, place orders, and redeem vouchers.

Industry: Café & Beverage Retail

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised in the leak post. No specific data types or breach details are disclosed. The post appears to be an announcement or listing without substantive evidence of compromise or data exfiltration.

The group claims to have compromised The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Malaysia's digital platform. The leak post does not explicitly state what data was exfiltrated or the nature of the attack (encryption vs. exfiltration).

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What the group claims

coffeebean.com.my zoominfo.com/c/the-coffee-bean/425047768 The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Malaysia is the official digital portal for the popular cafe chain, which currently operates over 150 locations across the country. The website allows customers to easily explore the full menu, access exclusive promotions, and manage their MyCBTL loyalty app rewards. It serves as a convenient central platform for ordering premium beverages, redeeming digital vouchers, and staying updated on seasonal cafe offerings.

Sources

Victim sitecoffeebean.com.my

Source

Indexed 4 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 756 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post August 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 14, 2026The Coffee Bean listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 756 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 18 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Coffee Bean is reported in Malaysia, a country with 40 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means The Coffee Bean 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.
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.