Was USTAR hit by ransomware?

USTAR was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (China), 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 USTAR breach?

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

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USTAR Cosmetics

listed as USTAR · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: China
Listed on leak site: Jan 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

USTAR Cosmetics is a Thai cosmetics brand operating via www.ustar.co.th, offering a range of makeup and skincare products including foundations, lipsticks, eyebrow pencils, sunscreens, and whitening creams. The company sells multiple sub-brands such as Zignature, Jeevan Plus, Goldberry Japan, and UZ Naughty Chic. It operates a direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform with customer support based in Thailand (phone: 02 666 9292).

Industry: Cosmetics & Beauty Products

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, suggesting confirmed exfiltration from a consumer e-commerce platform with potential customer PII (names, emails, order history). However, the leak post is inaccessible, no regulated data (e.g. medical, financial at scale) is confirmed, and the company is a mid-sized cosmetics retailer without known critical infrastructure status.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked USTAR Cosmetics and the disclosure status is listed as 'data_published', indicating data exfiltration has occurred. The leak post content is inaccessible due to bot-protection, so the specific nature and volume of exfiltrated data cannot be confirmed from the post itself.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer account data
Order records
Customer email addresses
Potentially payment or purchase information

What the group claims

www.ustar.co.th https://www.zoominfo.com/c/ustar-cosmetics/458875985 USTAR specializes in beauty products that enhance women's appearance and confidence, offering high-quality items at affordable prices. Their product range includes cosmetics for the eyes, face, and lips, such as foundations, lipsticks, and skincare creams. USTAR aims to cater to women's fashion, beauty, and lifestyle needs. The company is committed to providing friendly service and support to its clients.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.ustar.co.th
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 5 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

January 20, 2026USTAR 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

Geographically, USTAR is reported in China, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means USTAR 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.