Was Kontact Consortium India Pvt hit by ransomware?

Kontact Consortium India Pvt was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (India), 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 Kontact Consortium India Pvt breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Kontact Consortium India Pvt. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Kontact Consortium India Pvt

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Listed on leak site: Jul 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kontact Consortium India Pvt Ltd is an Indian engineering company with over 50 years of experience specializing in electrical and mechanical solutions for railways, infrastructure, and industrial sectors. They operate a 40,000+ sq. ft. manufacturing facility and provide end-to-end services including railway rolling stock supplies, LV/MV power distribution panels, and electrical contracting, serving major clients including ISRO, Tata Projects, and DMRC.

Industry: Electrical & Mechanical Engineering for Railways & Infrastructure
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The victim is a critical infrastructure supplier (railways, ISRO projects) but the leak post provides no evidence of data exfiltration, proof files, or operational disruption. Classification as medium due to the sensitive nature of infrastructure sector involvement and lack of transparency about breach scope.

The ransomware group claims to have compromised Kontact Consortium India Pvt Ltd. The post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what specific data categories are at stake.

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What the group claims

kontact.in zoominfo.com/c/kontact-consortium-india-pvt-ltd/437934184 Kontact is an Indian engineering company with over 50 years of experience, specializing in electrical and mechanical solutions for the railway, infrastructure, and industrial sectors. They provide end-to-end services, including railway rolling stock supplies, LV/MV power distribution panels, and electrical contracting, backed by a 40,000+ sq. ft. manufacturing facility. The company is recognized for its reliability and quality, holding key international certifications such as ISO 9001, IRIS, and EN 15085-2

Sources

Victim sitekontact.in

Source

Indexed 4 hours 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 664 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 30, 2026Kontact Consortium India Pvt listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 664 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Kontact Consortium India Pvt is reported in India, a country with 242 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Kontact Consortium India Pvt 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-In (India), 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.