Was Vera Chimie Management hit by ransomware?

Vera Chimie Management was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (France), 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 Vera Chimie Management breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Vera Chimie Management. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Vera Chimie Management

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jun 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vera Chimie is a French chemical manufacturer based in Irigny specializing in custom formulation, manufacturing, and packaging of liquid and powder chemicals for industrial clients. Operating for over 30 years with 7,500 m² of facilities, 25 mixers, and production of 27,000 tonnes since 2021, the company serves sectors including detergents, water treatment, metals, automotive, construction materials, and agrochemicals on a subcontracting basis.

Industry: Chemical Manufacturing & Formulation
Address: ZI du Broteau, rue du Broteau, 69540 Irigny, France
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1994

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by ransomware group with no specific proof count visible in excerpt; company handles subcontracted formulations for regulated sectors (nuclear, agrochemicals) suggesting moderate sensitivity. Lack of stated ransom or explicit encryption claim reduces certainty of active encryption, but disclosure of manufacturing/client data poses business risk.

The threat actor claims to have accessed and published data from Vera Chimie. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration method, or data categories are provided in the leak post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
client information
formulation details
operational documentation

What the group claims

***.fr zoominfo.com/c/vera-chimie-management/458572585 Vera Chimie is a French chemical manufacturing company based in Irigny with over 30 years of industry experience.They specialize in custom formulation, manufacturing, and packaging of liquid and powder chemicals for various industrial sectors.The company operates primarily on a subcontracting basis, delivering tailored chemical solutions with a strong focus on environmental standards and client confidentiality

Sources

Victim siteverachimie.fr

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 517 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 20, 2026Vera Chimie Management listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 517 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,674 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Vera Chimie Management is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Vera Chimie Management 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-FR (France), 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.