Was HBS Group hit by ransomware?

HBS Group was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Australia), 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 HBS Group breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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HBS Group

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HBS Group is a privately owned Australian construction company specializing in heritage restoration, conservation, and remedial construction projects. Based in Alphington, Victoria, with over 15 years of experience, they have worked on prestigious buildings including the Sydney Town Hall, Princess Theatre, Grace Hotel, and Royal Exhibition Building across multiple Australian states.

Industry: Heritage Restoration, Conservation & Remedial Construction
Address: 17 Abbott Street, Alphington Victoria 3078, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a listing/announcement with no technical proof files, screenshots, or detailed data inventory disclosed. No specific data categories, operational impact, or sensitive information exposure is documented in the available post excerpt.

The ransomware group claims to have breached HBS Group and published data. No specific details are provided regarding encryption, exfiltration scope, or data categories in the leak post excerpt.

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What the group claims

***.com.au zoominfo.com/c/hbs-group-pty-ltd/356757625 HBS Group is a privately owned Australian company specializing in heritage restoration, conservation, and remedial construction projects. Based in Alphington, Victoria, they have over 15 years of experience delivering complex construction and stonemasonry solutions nationwide. The company is recognized as an industry leader in preserving historical buildings and executing high-quality restoration work across major Australian cities

Sources

Victim sitehbsgroup.com.au

Source

Indexed 6 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 655 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 23, 2026HBS Group listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 655 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 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, HBS Group is reported in Australia, a country with 185 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means HBS Group 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, ACSC (Australia), 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.