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 424 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026La Kaffa International listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, La Kaffa International is reported in IT, a country with 195 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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La Kaffa International

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 15 days ago

14d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

La Kaffa International Co., Ltd. (六角國際事業股份有限公司) is a publicly listed Taiwanese multinational food and beverage group (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2732), headquartered in Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It is best known as the parent company of Chatime, a global bubble tea chain operating in 50+ countries across 6 continents, and manages a portfolio of 9+ F&B brands including ZenQ Dessert, Bake Code Bakery, and others, with over 1,100 outlets in China alone. The company has approximately 663 employees and annual revenues of around USD 46 million.

Industry: Food & Beverage Franchising (Bubble Tea & Multi-Brand F&B)
Address: No. 98, Gaotie 9th Road, Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Employees: 663
Founded: 2004

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (disclosed status: data_published) for a publicly listed multinational with hundreds of employees and global franchise operations, indicating confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including likely financial, employee, and partner/franchisee records.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised La Kaffa International and has published data from the attack. No ransom amount was stated and no specific data volume was disclosed, but the status indicates data has been published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Investor relations documents
Financial information
Employee records
Franchise/partner operational data

What the group claims

lakaffagroup.com zoominfo.com/c/la-kaffa-international-co-ltd/426003975 La Kaffa International is a publicly listed Taiwanese multinational food and beverage group (Taiwan Stock Exchange, code: 2732), founded in 2004 and headquartered in Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, with over 663 employees and annual revenues around $46 million. The company is best known as the parent brand of Chatime — the world-famous bubble tea chain expanded to 50+ countries across 6 continents, making it the top takeout tea brand in Australia, Southeast Asia, and beyond. Beyond Chatime, La Kaffa manages a multi-brand portfolio of 9+ F&B concepts including ZenQ Dessert, Bake Code Bakery, ChunSun Cake, La Kaffa Cafe, Wagokoro Tonkatsu, and Osaka Ohsho Taiwan, with over 1,100 outlets in China alone

Sources

Victim sitelakaffagroup.com

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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