Was AIRCOS hit by ransomware?

AIRCOS was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (France), 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 AIRCOS breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Aircos Pascual

listed as AIRCOS · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 4, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Apr 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Aircos Pascual is a French industrial cosmetics manufacturer and part of the ANJAC Group, specialising in hybrid makeup technologies including loose powders, hot-cast formulas, lip fluids, and foundation fluids. The company operates an innovation centre and laboratory in Clichy (near Paris) and three manufacturing sites across France, producing approximately 45 million units per year. It serves major beauty brands across the full product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch.

Industry: Cosmetics Contract Manufacturing (Hybrid Makeup)
Address: Clichy, France (headquarters/innovation centre near Paris); three additional industrial production sites in France
Employees: 300

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor. The company holds proprietary cosmetic formulas, R&D data, and client brand relationships, representing significant commercial and intellectual property value. Potential exposure of 300 employees' personal data and sensitive client/partner information further elevates severity.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Aircos Pascual and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data; no ransom amount was stated and no specific data categories were enumerated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company internal data
R&D and formulation data (450 active formulas)
Operational/production records
Employee information (300 staff, 25 R&D specialists)
Client/brand partner information

What the group claims

aircospascual-anjac.com rocketreach.co/aircos-profile_b5cafd62f42e1406 Aircos Pascual is a French industrial cosmetics manufacturer and part of the ANJAC Group, specializing in hybrid makeup technologies — loose powders, hot-cast formulas, lip fluids, and foundation fluids. With 300 employees, 25 R&D specialists, 450 active formulas, and 3 production sites across France, the company serves leading beauty brands from ideation through launch.

Sources

Victim siteaircospascual-anjac.com

Source

Indexed 2 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

April 4, 2026AIRCOS 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, AIRCOS is reported in France, a country with 238 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means AIRCOS 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.