Was Marchesi di Barolo hit by ransomware?

Marchesi di Barolo was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Italy), 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 Marchesi di Barolo breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Marchesi di Barolo. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Marchesi di Barolo

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 2 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 19, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Apr 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Marchesi di Barolo is one of Piedmont's most prestigious wine estates, located in Barolo, in the Langhe region of Italy. The estate traces its origins to the early 19th century and has been owned and operated by the Abbona family for six generations since Pietro Abbona acquired the historic cellars in 1929. The winery produces classic Langhe wines including Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera, Nebbiolo, and Dolcetto.

Industry: Wine & Viticulture
Address: Via Roma, 1, 12060 Barolo (CN), Italy
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1929

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no specific sensitive data categories (PII at scale, financial, medical) or data volume are enumerated in the leak post, limiting severity assessment to medium.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Marchesi di Barolo and has published data associated with the company. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, though no specific data categories, volume, or ransom amount are stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company data (unspecified)

What the group claims

marchesibarolo.com zoominfo.com/c/marchesi-di-barolo/372735437 English: Marchesi di Barolo is one of Piedmont's most prestigious wine estates, with roots dating back to the early 19th century, when Marchesa Juliette Colbert Falletti pioneered the production of dry, structured Barolo — earning it the title "Wine of Kings, King of Wines". In 1929, local winemaker Pietro Abbona acquired the historic cellars, and the Abbona family has been leading the estate for six generations ever since

Sources

Victim sitemarchesibarolo.com

Source

Indexed 2 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

April 19, 2026Marchesi di Barolo 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Marchesi di Barolo is reported in Italy, a country with 195 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Marchesi di Barolo 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.