Was Special Shapes Refractory hit by ransomware?

Special Shapes Refractory 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 Special Shapes Refractory breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Special Shapes Refractory. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Special Shapes Refractory Company

listed as Special Shapes Refractory · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 1, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Special Shapes Refractory Company (SSRC) is a U.S.-based manufacturer of high-quality precast refractory shapes and monolithic materials serving glass, steel, and other industrial manufacturers. The company is known for short lead times, proprietary formulations using pure raw materials, and 3D printing technology for custom refractory solutions. SSRC has operated for several decades and supports customers globally with installation monitoring, performance testing, and continuous technical support.

Industry: Refractory Materials Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been marked as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration and release of company data. While the specific contents are not enumerated in the truncated post, published data from a manufacturing company serving critical industrial sectors (glass, steel) constitutes significant business data exposure.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims an attack on Special Shapes Refractory Company with a disclosed status of 'data_published', indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the leak post.

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What the group claims

ssrco.com zoominfo.com/c/special-shapes-refractory-company-inc/1132759207 Special Shapes Refractory Company (SSRC) is a leader in providing high-quality precast shapes and monolithic materials primarily for the glass, steel, and other industrial manufacturers. They focus on minimizing downtime and enhancing equipment reliability through innovative solutions, efficient manufacturing processes, and a commitment to customer service. SSRC caters to a wide range of industrial clients, offering customized refractory solutions and quick lead times. With decades of experience, they emphasize the importance of using pure raw materials to ensure the best product quality and performance

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitessrco.com
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 3 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

March 1, 2026Special Shapes Refractory 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, Special Shapes Refractory 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 Special Shapes Refractory 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.