Was Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT hit by ransomware?

Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Saudi Arabia), 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 Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 13 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 31, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Saudi Arabia
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SAUDCONSULT is Saudi Arabia's first and largest privately owned engineering consultancy, founded in 1965 and headquartered in Riyadh. The 100% Saudi-owned firm employs 2,800+ professionals and has completed 3,500+ projects over six decades, delivering full-cycle services from feasibility studies through operations & maintenance across infrastructure, oil & gas, power, healthcare, airports, and defence sectors.

Industry: Engineering Consulting & Project Management
Address: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (headquarters); branches in Jeddah, Khobar, Medina, Abha; offices in Bahrain and Egypt
Employees: 2800+
Founded: 1965

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published disclosure with no stated proof files or screenshots; no explicit confirmation of exfiltration scope or sensitive data categories; listing only establishes compromise but lacks operational or data-integrity detail.

The ransomware group claims to have compromised SAUDCONSULT but provides no details on the method (encryption vs. exfiltration) or specific data categories targeted in the leak post.

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What the group claims

saudconsult.com zoominfo.com/c/saudi-consulting-services---saud-consult/348812396 SaudConsult — Saudi Arabia's oldest and largest privately owned engineering consultancy, founded in 1965 by Eng. Dr. Tarek M. A. Al Shawaf. The first Saudi engineering consulting firm — 100% Saudi privately owned, headquartered in Riyadh with branches in Jeddah, Khobar, Medina, Abha, plus offices in Bahrain and Egypt. Employs 2,800+ professionals (engineers, architects, designers); completed 3,500+ projects over six decades. Full-cycle services: feasibility studies, design, project management, construction supervision, procurement, commissioning, O&M. Sectors: infrastructure, oil & gas (clients include Saudi Aramco, SABIC, SADARA, MAADEN), power, hospitals, airports, defense & aviation, master planning. Actively participates in Saudi Vision 2030; in 2026 formed a partnership with Canada's Dokainish & Company for full EPCM capability.

Sources

Victim sitesaudconsult.com

Source

Indexed 13 days 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 838 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 31, 2026Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 838 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 Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT 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.