Was Smart Value hit by ransomware?

Smart Value was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Belize), 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?

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What data was leaked in the Smart Value breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Smart Value. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Smart Value Limited

listed as Smart Value · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Belize
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Smart Value Limited is an Indian MLM/network marketing company founded in 2003–2004 in New Delhi, operating 100+ offices across India with a claimed 2,000,000+ distributors. The company sells health supplements, personal care, household products, and educational courses through a direct-selling model that prioritizes recruitment over retail sales.

Industry: Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) & Direct Selling
Address: New Delhi, India
Founded: 2003

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only an announcement and company background information with no explicit proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory listed. No confirmation of actual data exfiltration, encryption, or operational disruption is evident in the provided excerpt.

The threat actor claims access to Smart Value Limited's systems and has published data. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data types are provided in the truncated leak post excerpt.

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What the group claims

smartvalue.biz zoominfo.com/c/smart-value/408286294 Smart Value Limited is an Indian MLM (multi-level marketing) / network marketing company founded in 2003–2004 in New Delhi by Manoj Kumar Gupta, operating 100+ offices across India with a claimed 2,000,000+ distributors (IBAs). The company sells health supplements, personal care, household products, and educational courses — but revenue is not publicly disclosed (private MLM). Its core business model relies on recruiting new distributors rather than actual retail sales, with heavily inflated product pricing (200–500% above market) to fund multi-level commissions. The company faces serious and widespread allegations: consumer complaints about pyramid-like structure, inability to recover investments, fake income claims on social media, and reported law enforcement scrutiny in India. ~99% of participants lose money (standard MLM economics), while only top recruitment leaders profit. Despite 20+ years of operation and membership in Indian

Sources

Victim sitesmartvalue.biz

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 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, 2026Smart Value 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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Smart Value is reported in Belize.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Smart Value 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.