Was KlearNow.AI hit by ransomware?

KlearNow.AI was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), 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 KlearNow.AI breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to KlearNow.AI (~3 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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KlearNow.AI

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

3 TB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Feb 8, 2026
Data size: 3 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

KlearNow.AI is a San Jose, California-based technology company that provides AI-powered customs and trade compliance software under its KlearHub, KlearCustoms, and KlearD platforms. The company serves freight forwarders, customs brokers, importers, and self-filers by automating data capture, regulatory compliance, and supply chain visibility. Its platform focuses on digital trade transformation including pre- and post-entry audits, SKU-level chain of custody, and global trade intelligence.

Industry: AI-Powered Customs & Trade Compliance Software
Address: 999 W Taylor Street, Suite A, San Jose, CA 95126, USA
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — KlearNow.AI handles sensitive international trade, customs, and supply chain data for importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers at scale. A 3 TB exfiltration of such data — which likely includes regulated trade documents, commercial invoices, PII of business contacts, and financial/logistics records across global supply chains — with data already published constitutes a critical disclosure affecting multiple downstream clients and potentially implicating trade compliance regulations.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have exfiltrated approximately 3 TB of data from KlearNow.AI, with the status listed as data_published indicating the data has been released or made available. The leak post itself was inaccessible due to bot-protection, so specific details on data types claimed are inferred from context.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Trade compliance records
Customs documentation
Supply chain data
Importer/exporter business data
Client account information
Internal business operations data

What the group claims

www.klearnow.ai https://www.zoominfo.com/c/klearnowai/566144278 3 TB of data: all correspondence for the last two years, a database dump, all source code. We filed CBP declarations for giants such as BASF, Safran, Sumitomo, etc. KlearNow.AI is on a mission to simplify global trade with AI and ML driven products that make logistics clear, cost-effective, and transparent by transforming B2B supply chains with its smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) platform. The platform eliminates manual data ent

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.klearnow.ai
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 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

February 8, 2026KlearNow.AI listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Data size: 3 TB

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 Technology sector, which has 2,526 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, KlearNow.AI is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means KlearNow.AI 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.