Was Husky Ltee hit by ransomware?

Husky Ltee was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Canada), 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 Husky Ltee breach?

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

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Husky Ltée (Chaussures HUSKY Ltée)

listed as Husky Ltee · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Husky Ltée is a Quebec-based family-owned retailer of workwear and safety footwear founded in 1969 in Joliette. Operating from Saint-Paul headquarters with 15–50 employees, it sells brands like Carhartt, Ariat, and Timberland through retail, B2B, and its signature Mobile Store service (since 1985). The company also operates an in-house atelier producing 50,000+ custom embroideries and promotional products annually for corporate clients.

Industry: Workwear & Safety Footwear Retail
Address: Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada
Employees: 15-50
Founded: 1969

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are described in the truncated leak post. No specific data types or volumes are stated. Disclosure status is 'data_published' but the nature and scope of published material cannot be verified from the available excerpt.

thegentlemen claims to have compromised Husky Ltée and published data. The specific attack vector (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data scope are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

low

What the group claims

huskyboutique.com zoominfo.com/c/husky-ltée/457918337 Husky (Chaussures HUSKY Ltée) is a Quebec family-owned workwear and safety footwear retailer founded in 1969 in Joliette by Jean-Louis Drainville, now run by the third generation (CEO François Drainville, President Hugo Drainville). It employs ~15–50 people from its Saint-Paul headquarters, with estimated revenue of $5–15M/year (private, self-funded). Core business: retail and B2B sales of work boots, safety apparel, and PPE (Carhartt, Ariat, Timberland, Helly Hansen, Big Bill), plus an in-house atelier producing 50,000+ custom embroideries, prints, and promotional products per year for corporate clients. Its signature service is the HUSKY Mobile Store (since 1985) — a fully equipped truck that travels to job sites and factories for on-site employee fittings. In 2026 the company completed a major digital transformation: Shopify Plus + B2B Protocol + ServiceCentre ERP, serving four buyer segments (consumers, school programs, company

Sources

Victim sitehuskyboutique.com

Source

Indexed 5 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 960 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 9, 2026Husky Ltee listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Husky Ltee is reported in Canada, a country with 320 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Husky Ltee 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, CCCS (Canada), 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.