Was Terra Vitis hit by ransomware?

Terra Vitis was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (France), 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 Terra Vitis breach?

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

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Terra Vitis

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 6 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 16, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Jul 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Terra Vitis is a French national association and certification body for sustainable and responsible winegrowing, founded in 1998 in Beaujolais. It unites nearly 2,000 member winegrowers across France and is the only nationally-recognized certification dedicated specifically to the wine sector, officially recognized by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

Industry: Wine Industry Certification & Association
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1998

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group, and Terra Vitis holds sensitive information about 2,000+ member winegrowers and their operations. However, the specific nature and volume of exfiltrated data are not detailed in the available post, and no regulated PII categories are explicitly confirmed.

The ransomware group claims to have compromised Terra Vitis' systems and published data. No specific details are provided regarding encryption, exfiltration methods, or data contents in the available post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Member winegrower records
Association operational data
Certification audit documentation

What the group claims

***.com zoominfo.com/c/terra-vitis/447256156 French national certification for sustainable and responsible winegrowing, founded in 1998 by a group of committed Beaujolais winegrowers. It is the only national certification specifically dedicated to the wine sector and is officially recognized by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food. The association unites nearly 2,000 members across France, guaranteeing environmentally friendly, socially responsible, and economically viable practices from vine to wine glass through strict annual audits

Sources

Victim siteterravitis.com

Source

Indexed 6 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 618 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 16, 2026Terra Vitis listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 618 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Terra Vitis is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Terra Vitis 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-FR (France), 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.