Was Salama Medicals Distributors Private hit by ransomware?

Salama Medicals Distributors Private was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Tanzania), 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 Salama Medicals Distributors Private breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Salama Medicals Distributors Private. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Salama Pharmaceuticals Limited

listed as Salama Medicals Distributors Private · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 31, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Tanzania
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jul 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Salama Pharmaceuticals Limited is Tanzania's leading importer and distributor of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical equipment. The company operates a multi-warehouse distribution network serving healthcare facilities across Tanzania and the broader East African region.

Industry: Pharmaceutical Distribution & Medical Devices
Address: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Healthcare sector company with operational significance in East Africa; data published status confirmed, but no specific proof files enumerated, no ransom demand stated, and no detailed inventory of sensitive data disclosed. The compromised domain is currently suspended, limiting verification.

The threat actor claims to have compromised Salama Pharmaceuticals Limited and published data. The specific nature of the breach (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data types are not detailed in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

company records
operational data

What the group claims

salamapharma.co.tz zoominfo.com/c/salama-medicals-distributors-private-ltd/356160819 Salama Pharmaceuticals Limited is Tanzania’s leading importer and distributor of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical equipment. Headquartered in Dar es Salaam, the company operates a large multi-warehouse distribution network to serve healthcare facilities across the country. Dedicated to enhancing healthcare outcomes, Salama Pharma focuses on supplying quality medical products and supporting the modernization of healthcare operations in the East African region

Sources

Victim sitesalamapharma.co.tz

Source

Indexed 4 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 696 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 31, 2026Salama Medicals Distributors Private listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 696 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,603 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Salama Medicals Distributors Private is reported in Tanzania, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Salama Medicals Distributors Private 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.