Was Kooltronic hit by ransomware?

Kooltronic was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), 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 Kooltronic breach?

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

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Kooltronic

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kooltronic, Inc. is a private, family-owned manufacturer of enclosure cooling products (air conditioners, heat exchangers, fans) founded in 1956 in Princeton, NJ, now based in Pennington, NJ. The company specializes in closed-loop cooling solutions with a unique market niche in hazardous location systems, generating estimated annual revenue of $35–45M with 58–87 employees and 100% in-house production capacity.

Industry: Enclosure Cooling Products Manufacturing
Address: Pennington, NJ, US (170,000 sq ft facility)
Employees: 58-87
Founded: 1956

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or specific data categories are advertised in the post. The disclosure consists only of publicly available company information already present on the clearnet site and public records. No operational disruption or sensitive data breach is claimed or evidenced.

The leak post does not specify what data was exfiltrated or encrypted, nor does it detail the operational impact of the attack. The group claims disclosure of company information but provides no description of the attack method or data categories compromised.

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What the group claims

kooltronic.com Kooltronic, Inc. is a private, family-owned manufacturer of enclosure cooling products (air conditioners, heat exchangers, fans) founded in 1956 in Princeton, NJ, now based in Pennington, NJ on a 170,000 sq ft facility powered by 90% solar energy. Owned by the Freedman family since 1970 (President: Barry Freedman), the company generates estimated annual revenue of $35–45M with 58–87 employees (~$650K–$750K revenue per employee — very high for a manufacturer). Kooltronic invented the world's first closed-loop enclosure air conditioner in 1967 and holds a US patent for Hazardous Location AC systems (NEC Class I Div 1&2), giving it a unique market niche. It offers the industry's widest range — 2,000–30,000 BTU/H units across all NEMA ratings — with 100% in-house production, UL-certified testing labs, and ISO 9001:2015 certification. The company is women-owned (WBE) (CEO Anne Freedman), holds $20.5M in 401(k) assets (stable finances), and is expanding into fast-growing BESS

Sources

Victim sitekooltronic.com

Source

Indexed 5 hours 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 960 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 9, 2026Kooltronic listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,699 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kooltronic is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Kooltronic 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.