Was Qingtian Express Co. hit by ransomware?

Qingtian Express Co. was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Taiwan), 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?

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What data was leaked in the Qingtian Express Co. breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Qingtian Express Co.. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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擎天通運股份有限公司 (Qingtian Express Co., Ltd.)

listed as Qingtian Express Co. · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 21, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Taiwan
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Feb 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

擎天通運股份有限公司 (Qingtian Express Co., Ltd.) is a Taipei-based international freight forwarder established in December 1973. The company operates air freight, ocean freight, and door-to-door logistics services, holding licenses for air and sea freight forwarding as well as customs brokerage. It is a member of IATA, FIATA, WCA, IASA, and is registered with the U.S. FMC as an NVOCC, and obtained AEO certification in July 2016.

Industry: International Freight Forwarding & Logistics
Address: 台北市復興南路一段135巷15號3樓-3 (No. 15, Lane 135, Section 1, Fuxing South Road, 3F-3, Taipei City, Taiwan)
Founded: 1973

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (not merely listed), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the leak post is inaccessible so the scale, sensitivity, and nature of the data cannot be verified. No ransom amount or data size was stated, and no regulated/sensitive data categories are confirmed, placing this at medium rather than high or critical.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Qingtian Express Co. and has published data (disclosed status: data_published). The leak post content is inaccessible due to a bot-verification challenge page, so specific details on encryption or exfiltration scope are not confirmable from the post itself.

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What the group claims

www.uniques.com.tw https://www.zoominfo.com/c/qingtian-express-co-ltd/445536083 Unique Express Co., Ltd. is a Taiwan-based logistics and freight forwarding company that provides international and domestic supply chain and transportation services. The company focuses on door-to-door cargo delivery, including air and ocean freight, customs brokerage, warehousing, inland transportation, and cargo consolidation. It handles a wide range of shipments such as oversized, valuable, dangerous, and exhibition goods, offering tailored logistics solutions and documentation support. Founded in the 1970s and based in Taipei, Unique Express serves global clients and is a member of major international logistics and freight associations. Designated as an official air freight forwarder for the National Space Program Office, supporting the transport and installation of satellites and related ground equipment, and holds multiple security. IATA and FIATA.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.uniques.com.tw
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 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

February 21, 2026Qingtian Express Co. 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 847 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Qingtian Express Co. is reported in Taiwan, a country with 46 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Qingtian Express Co. 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.