Was San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare hit by ransomware?

San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Italy), 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 San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Jan 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare is an Italian food company headquartered in Milan, founded in 1936 and best known for producing potato chips and salted snacks under the San Carlo brand. The group also owns several other snack and confectionery brands and distributes products across Italy and international markets. It is one of the largest snack food manufacturers in Italy.

Industry: Snack Food & Confectionery Manufacturing
Address: Via Stephenson, 91, 20157 Milan, Italy
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1936

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating actual exfiltration and release of company data from a major Italian food manufacturer with over 1,000 employees; while the specific data categories cannot be confirmed from the inaccessible leak post, publication of data at this corporate scale warrants a high severity rating.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare and has moved to a data_published disclosure status, suggesting exfiltration and publication of company data. The leak post content was inaccessible due to a bot-verification wall, so specific claims about encryption or data categories cannot be confirmed from the post itself.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Potentially employee records
Potentially financial records
Potentially supplier/partner information

What the group claims

www.sancarlo.it https://www.zoominfo.com/c/san-carlo-gruppo-alimentare-spa/348425917 SAN CARLO is a renowned brand specializing in the production of high-quality snacks, particularly potato chips and other savory snacks. The company focuses on delivering exceptional taste and quality, appealing to a wide range of consumers who enjoy indulgent snack options. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, SAN CARLO aims to meet the evolving preferences of its customers. Their products are widely available in various retail outlets, catering to both local and international markets.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.sancarlo.it
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 5 months 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 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 20, 2026San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 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 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare is reported in Italy, a country with 496 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare 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.
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.