Was Buck Knives hit by ransomware?

Buck Knives was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), 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 Buck Knives breach?

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

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Buck Knives

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 22 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 28, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jul 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Buck Knives is a historic American knife manufacturer founded in 1947 by Hoyt Buck, evolving from a family blacksmith business. Headquartered in Post Falls, Idaho, the company is renowned for rugged durability, traditional American craftsmanship, and iconic designs such as the Model 110 Folding Hunter introduced in 1964. Buck Knives operates as a four-generation family business offering a lifetime warranty on its products.

Industry: Cutlery & Knife Manufacturing
Address: Post Falls, Idaho, US
Founded: 1947

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only company background information copied from public sources and ZoomInfo. No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory are advertised. No operational disruption or data exfiltration details are stated.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Buck Knives and published data. No specific details are provided regarding encryption, exfiltration scope, or what data categories were accessed.

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What the group claims

buckknives.com zoominfo.com/c/buck-knives-inc/16223110 Buck Knives is a historic American knife manufacturer founded in 1947 by Hoyt Buck, originating from a family blacksmith business dedicated to superior steel tempering. The brand revolutionized the knife industry in 1964 with the introduction of the iconic Model 110 Folding Hunter. Now headquartered in Post Falls, Idaho, this four-generation family company is renowned for its rugged durability, traditional American craftsmanship, and a lifetime "Forever Warranty"

Sources

Victim sitebuckknives.com

Source

Indexed 22 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 655 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 28, 2026Buck Knives listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 655 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Buck Knives is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Buck Knives 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, CISA (United States), 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.