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 424 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026IPE listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, IPE is reported in IT, a country with 195 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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IPE

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 15 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IPE Technologies S.r.l. is an Italian company and the flagship entity of the IPE Group, headquartered in San Giovanni Lupatoto, Verona. Founded in 1986, it specialises in the distribution of sealed lead-acid batteries (under Yuasa, Remco, RemcoX, and CSB brands), battery chargers, shielded cables, and Panasonic electronic components throughout Italy. Its customer base includes alarm system installers, UPS maintenance companies, specialised retailers, and industrial automation and telecommunications firms.

Industry: Electronic Components & Battery Distribution
Address: Via Garofoli 309, 37057 - San Giovanni Lupatoto, Verona, Italy
Founded: 1986

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration of business data from the company. While no specific sensitive regulated data (e.g. medical or government) is explicitly mentioned, the publication of exfiltrated data from a commercial entity with a broad B2B client base constitutes a significant business data exposure warranting a high severity rating.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised IPE Technologies S.r.l. and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data. No ransom amount or specific data volume has been stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Customer/client records
Internal documents

What the group claims

ipesrl.com zoominfo.com/c/ipe-srl/372826031 IPE Technologies S.r.l. is an Italian company and the flagship entity of the IPE Group, specializing in the distribution of sealed lead-acid batteries, battery chargers, shielded cables, and Panasonic electronic components across Italy. Active in the sector since 1986, the company distributes premium brands such as Yuasa and Panasonic, alongside its own proprietary brands Remco and RemcoX. Its client base includes alarm system installers, UPS maintenance companies, specialized retailers, and industrial automation and telecommunications firms

Sources

Victim siteipesrl.com

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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