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Affinity Designs LLC

listed as Affinity Designs · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 6 days ago

6d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 23, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Jul 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Affinity Designs LLC is a fine jewelry wholesaler and manufacturer based in New York, specializing in the design, production, and marketing of elegant gemstone jewelry collections in precious metals. The company is led by CEO Meir Sanandaji, who brings over 40 years of industry experience, and caters to retailers seeking premium, trend-forward jewelry lines.

Industry
Jewelry Manufacturing & Wholesale
Address
New York, US

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat group (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration; however, no specific sensitive data categories, proof files, or operational impact are documented in the available post excerpt. Jewelry business operations and customer/supplier records are the presumed at-risk assets.

The threat actor claims to have compromised Affinity Designs LLC and published data, though specific details of what was exfiltrated or encrypted are not detailed in the provided leak post excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

***.com zoominfo.com/c/affinity-designs/374939106 Affinity Designs LLC is a fine jewelry wholesaler and manufacturer based in New York, specializing in the design, production, and marketing of elegant gemstone jewelry collections. The company offers a wide range of high-quality pieces crafted in 925 Sterling Silver and 10K, 14K, or 18K gold. Led by CEO Meir Sanandaji, who brings over 40 years of industry experience, the business caters to retailers seeking premium, trend-forward jewelry lines

Sources

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, 2026Affinity Designs 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

Geographically, Affinity Designs is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Affinity Designs 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, CISA (United States), 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.