Was European Design hit by ransomware?

European Design was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Canada), 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 European Design breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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European Design Jewellery Ltd

listed as European Design · 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: Canada
Listed on leak site: Jul 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

European Design Jewellery Ltd is a Toronto-based wholesale supplier of genuine and synthetic gemstones, jewellery findings, diamonds, finished pieces, and professional jewellery-making equipment. They serve jewellers and manufacturers across Canada and act as an exclusive Canadian distributor for several industry brands.

Industry: Luxury Goods & Jewelry
Address: Toronto, Canada

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, the leak post excerpt does not specify data types, scale, or sensitivity level. No operational disruption is stated. The business context (B2B wholesale) suggests moderate rather than critical sensitivity.

The thegentlemen group claims to have compromised European Design Jewellery Ltd and published data. The specific scope of exfiltration and operational impact are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer records
business data
supplier information

What the group claims

***.ca zoominfo.com/c/european-design/365524802 European Design Jewellery Ltd is a Toronto-based wholesale supplier serving jewellers and manufacturers across Canada. They specialize in providing a wide range of genuine and synthetic gemstones, jewellery findings, diamonds, and finished pieces. Additionally, the company supplies professional jewellery-making equipment and tools, acting as an exclusive Canadian distributor for several industry brands

Sources

Victim siteeuropeandesign.ca

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, 2026European Design 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

Geographically, European Design is reported in Canada, a country with 316 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means European Design 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, CCCS (Canada), 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.