Was WCT Holdings Berhad hit by ransomware?

WCT Holdings Berhad 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 WCT Holdings Berhad breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to WCT Holdings Berhad. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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WCT Holdings Berhad

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Malaysia
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Feb 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

WCT Holdings Berhad (company no. 930464-M) is a Malaysia-based diversified conglomerate listed on Bursa Malaysia. Its core businesses span engineering and construction, property development, shopping malls, hospitality, food and beverage, wellness, business aviation, and a REIT (Paradigm REIT). The group operates primarily in Malaysia with an established track record in large-scale infrastructure and property projects.

Industry: Engineering, Construction & Property Development
Address: Malaysia (headquarters; phone +603 7806 6688)
Founded: 2011

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating actual data release rather than a mere listing. WCT Holdings is a publicly listed Malaysian conglomerate handling significant financial, employee, and business data across regulated sectors; exfiltration and publication of such data constitutes high severity, though lack of confirmed PII at scale or regulated medical/government data prevents a critical rating.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have exfiltrated data from WCT Holdings Berhad, with the disclosure status recorded as 'data_published', suggesting data has been released or made available. The leak post itself was inaccessible due to a bot-protection page, so specific details on volume, file types, or encryption activity cannot be confirmed from the post text.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate documents
Financial records
Employee data
Business operations data

What the group claims

wct.com.my zoominfo.com/c/wct-holdings-berhad/372152043 WCT Holdings Berhad is a prominent construction company in Malaysia with over 40 years of experience, specializing in a diverse range of engineering and construction services. The company also engages in property development, shopping malls, hospitality, and business aviation. Their intended clients include various sectors seeking reliable construction and development solutions. WCT Holdings is committed to sustainability and has received

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewct.com.my
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 months 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 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 11, 2026WCT Holdings Berhad listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 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 Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, WCT Holdings Berhad is reported in Malaysia, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means WCT Holdings Berhad 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.