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SDEZ

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 2 days ago

1d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 1, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Listed on leak site
Jul 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SDEZ is a historic French family-owned company founded in 1816 specializing in the rental and maintenance of professional linen, workwear, and hygiene equipment. Operating a national network of industrial laundries across France and Belgium, it serves thousands of business clients across healthcare, hospitality, food processing, and industrial sectors with over 700 employees.

Industry
Textile Services & Professional Laundry
Employees
700+
Founded
1816

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files or screenshots are advertised in the available leak post excerpt. No specific data categories are named. The post appears to be an initial listing/announcement only with no operational impact stated.

The threat actor claims to have compromised SDEZ but the truncated leak post provides no detail on the attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or what data categories were targeted.

low

What the group claims

***.fr SDEZ is a historic French family-owned company founded in 1816, specializing in the rental and maintenance of professional linen, workwear, and hygiene equipment.Operating a national network of industrial laundries across France and Belgium, it has become one of the leading textile service providers in the region.The company serves thousands of business clients and employs over 700 people to deliver comprehensive laundry and hygiene solution

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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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 559 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 1, 2026SDEZ listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 559 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, SDEZ is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means SDEZ 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.