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Kozminski University

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 7 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 15, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
Poland
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Jun 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kozminski University is Poland's premier private business school located in Warsaw, specializing in management, finance, and law education. The institution holds Triple Crown accreditation and is consistently ranked among top European business schools by Financial Times, offering undergraduate, graduate, MBA, and doctoral programs with strong international partnerships.

Industry
Higher Education & Business School
Address
Warsaw, Poland

Attack summary

Severity: low — Leak post is merely an announcement with no proof files, screenshots, or data samples provided. No specific data categories are disclosed, and no operational impact is stated. The post only establishes that the institution was listed on a leak site.

The threat actor claims to have compromised Kozminski University and published data; however, the leak post contains no specific details about what data was exfiltrated or the nature of the attack (encryption, data theft, or both).

low

What the group claims

***.edu.pl zoominfo.com/c/kozminski-university/372606592 Kozminski University, located in Warsaw, is Poland's premier private business school and a globally recognized academic institution holding the prestigious "Triple Crown" accreditation. Consistently ranked among the top European business schools by the Financial Times, it specializes in management, finance, and law. The university is dedicated to shaping future business leaders through innovative, research-driven education and strong international partnership

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 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 504 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 15, 2026Kozminski University listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 504 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 Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kozminski University is reported in Poland, a country with 21 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Kozminski University 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, CERT Polska (Poland), 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.