Was Decoupe Laser Services hit by ransomware?

Decoupe Laser Services 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 Decoupe Laser Services breach?

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

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Decoupe Laser Services

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jul 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Découpe Laser Services (DLS) is a French precision laser cutting specialist based in La Ravoire (Savoie). They cut steel, stainless steel, and aluminum with large-format capabilities (up to 6000mm × 2000mm) and maintain over 200 tons of material stock. The company offers comprehensive metal finishing services including deburring, bending, surface treatment, tapping, and milling, serving prototype to large-scale industrial production.

Industry: Precision Metal Laser Cutting & Finishing Services
Address: Parc d'activités de la Villette, 255 rue du Clapet, 73490 La Ravoire, France
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (disclosed_status confirms 'data_published'), indicating successful exfiltration. However, the leak post provides no enumeration of sensitive data types, proof files, or evidence of regulated information (PII, financial records, etc.). The company is a manufacturing/industrial services firm with no obvious handling of highly regulated data, limiting classification to medium absent further evidence.

The thegentlemen group claims to have compromised DLS and published exfiltrated data. No specific details are provided in the post regarding the scope of encryption, operational disruption, or data categories affected.

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What the group claims

***.com DLS (Découpe Laser Services) is a French laser cutting specialist based in La Ravoire, specializing in precision laser cutting of steel, stainless steel, and aluminum. The company offers comprehensive metal finishing services including deburring, bending, surface treatment, tapping, and milling. With large-format cutting capabilities (6000mm x 2000mm) and over 200 tons of material stock, DLS handles everything from prototypes to very large industrial production runs. They pride themselves on reactivity and flexibility, providing quotes within 24 hours.

Sources

Victim sitedls-laser.com

Source

Indexed 6 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 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 23, 2026Decoupe Laser Services 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, Decoupe Laser Services is reported in France, a country with 241 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Decoupe Laser Services 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, CERT-FR (France), 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.