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SAS H2O MICHEL

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 9, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Listed on leak site
Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SAS H2O MICHEL is a French commissaire de justice (judicial officer) firm based in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, operating 5 offices across the Val de Loire region. Founded in 2018 and led by Alexandra Michel, the firm specializes in enforcement of court decisions, debt recovery, legal documentation, and auction sales as part of France's H2O Réseau National network.

Industry
Legal Services & Judicial Enforcement
Address
7 rue Dublineau, 37000 Tours, France
Employees
3-7
Founded
2018

Attack summary

Severity: high — Judicial officer firm holds sensitive client litigation data, court judgments, enforcement actions, and personal/corporate financial information at scale. Exfiltration of such records poses significant privacy and business harm to multiple clients, despite the firm's small size.

The group claims to have accessed and published data from SAS H2O MICHEL's systems. The leak post does not specify whether encryption occurred or detail the nature of exfiltrated data beyond general reference to firm records.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client case files
  • Court enforcement records
  • Debt recovery documentation
  • Legal constats (notarized reports)
  • Financial records
  • Business correspondence

What the group claims

h2o-michel.fr huissiers-bordeaux.com SAS H2O MICHEL is a French commissaire de justice firm (public judicial officer — serving court documents, enforcing judgments, debt recovery) created in 2018 and based in Tours/Chinon, Val de Loire (Indre-et-Loire). It is led by President Alexandra Michel and operates 5 offices (Tours, Chinon, Bourgueil, Langeais, Château-la-Vallière) with a small team of 3–7 employees. Revenue grew rapidly from €223K in 2018 to €631K in 2019 (+183%), with a strong 16.4% net margin (€103.5K net profit, ROE 85.8%) — though all accounts since 2020 are filed confidentially (estimated €600K–1M today). The firm is part of H2O Réseau National, France's first national network of commissaires de justice specialized in debt recovery (group network: 160+ staff, 6 major offices). Core services: enforcement of court decisions (saisie-attribution, wage garnishment, evictions, property seizures), debt collection, legal constats, and auction sales.

Sources

Source

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

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 9, 2026SAS H2O MICHEL listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, SAS H2O MICHEL is reported in France, a country with 242 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means SAS H2O MICHEL 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.