Was Nobel Hygiene Pvt hit by ransomware?

Nobel Hygiene Pvt was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (India), 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 Nobel Hygiene Pvt breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Nobel Hygiene Pvt. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Nobel Hygiene Pvt Ltd

listed as Nobel Hygiene Pvt · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 31, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nobel Hygiene Pvt Ltd is an Indian manufacturer of personal hygiene and absorbent care products, including adult diapers, baby diapers, and feminine hygiene products. The company operates under the brand 'Friends' and is headquartered in India. It is one of India's larger domestic players in the disposable hygiene product segment.

Industry: Personal Care & Hygiene Products Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The status is listed as 'data_published', indicating claimed exfiltration and publication of data, but the leak post content is unverifiable due to the Gentlecloud bot-check interstitial, and no data size, ransom, or specific data inventory could be confirmed. Medium reflects published-data status without verifiable details.

The group 'thegentlemen' has disclosed the attack under a 'data_published' status, claiming data exfiltration from Nobel Hygiene Pvt Ltd; however, the leak post content is inaccessible due to a bot-verification interstitial, preventing confirmation of specific claims or data types.

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What the group claims

www.nobelhygiene.com https://www.zoominfo.com/c/nobel-hygiene-pvt-ltd/348701217 Nobel Hygiene is a leading manufacturer of disposable hygiene products in India, specializing in adult and baby diapers, as well as women's hygiene products. With over 20 years of experience, the company serves more than 5 million households and exports to over 30 countries. They are known for pioneering the concept of adult diapers in India and have received multiple awards for their manufacturing excellence. Their target clients include families and individuals seeking quality hygiene solutions.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.nobelhygiene.com
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

January 31, 2026Nobel Hygiene Pvt 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nobel Hygiene Pvt is reported in India, a country with 255 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Nobel Hygiene Pvt 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.