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Habbas & Associates

listed as Habbas Associates · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 9, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

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

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Habbas & Associates is a private, family-owned personal injury law firm founded in 1988 by Omar Habbas in San Jose, California. Operating 6 offices across California, the firm specializes in car/truck accidents, wrongful death, brain/spinal injuries, medical malpractice, and employment law on a contingency fee basis. With ~$20–21M annual revenue and 38 years of operations, the firm has resolved 20,000+ cases and secured $750M+ in total client recoveries.

Industry
Personal Injury Law
Address
San Jose, California (HQ); 6 offices statewide: San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Modesto, Rocklin
Employees
20–44
Founded
1988

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published without detailed proof inventory or proof file count advertised. Exfiltration of law firm records (likely containing client PII and sensitive case information) constitutes moderate-to-significant sensitivity, but lack of explicit proof documentation and operational detail limits confidence in attack claims.

The ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Habbas & Associates. The leak post does not specify the nature of the exfiltrated data, the scope of encryption, or any specific operational impact.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client case files
  • Legal documents
  • Personal injury litigation records

What the group claims

habbaslaw.com zoominfo.com/c/habbas--associates/348628386 Habbas & Associates (Habbas Law) is a private, family-owned personal injury law firm founded in 1988 by Omar Habbas in San Jose, California, now operating 6 offices statewide (San Jose, Oakland, SF, LA, Modesto, Rocklin). It generates estimated annual revenue of ~$20–21M with 20–44 employees, working on a contingency fee basis ("No Recovery, No Fee"). Over 38 years the firm has resolved 20,000+ cases and secured $750M+ in total client recoveries, with founder Omar Habbas alone accounting for $450M+ — he holds an AV Preeminent rating, Super Lawyers status, and was admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. The firm is now transitioning to its second generation: son Tarik Habbas (Partner, 3× Super Lawyers Rising Star) and son Nicholas Habbas (admitted to the CA Bar in 2026). Core practice areas: car/truck accidents, wrongful death, brain/spinal injuries, medical malpractice, and employment law. Client ratings are strong

Sources

Source

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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, 2026Habbas Associates 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, Habbas Associates is reported in Singapore, a country with 45 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Habbas Associates 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, SingCERT (Singapore), 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.