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Hong Kong Baptist University

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 16 days ago

16d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 10, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
Hong Kong SAR China
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Aug 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a leading public research university established in 1956 in Hong Kong. As one of eight statutory publicly funded universities in the region, it specializes in liberal arts, business, communication, and traditional Chinese medicine, with a focus on academic excellence and innovative research.

Industry
Higher Education & Research
Address
Hong Kong
Founded
1956

Attack summary

Severity: medium — University with likely access to student records, research data, and institutional information; data published with disclosed status but no proof files enumerated or data inventory detailed in the post.

The ransomware group claims to have compromised HKBU and published data. No specific details on exfiltration scope, encryption, or data categories are provided in the leak post.

medium

What the group claims

hkbu.edu.hk zoominfo.com/c/hong-kong-baptist-university/429650952 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a leading public research university established in 1956 in Hong Kong. It is highly regarded for its academic excellence, particularly in liberal arts, business, communication, and traditional Chinese medicine. As one of the region's eight statutory publicly funded universities, it is dedicated to fostering global citizenship and innovative research.

Sources

Source

Indexed 16 days 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 785 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 10, 2026Hong Kong Baptist University listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 785 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 Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hong Kong Baptist University is reported in Hong Kong SAR China, a country with 65 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Hong Kong Baptist University 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.