Was Wada Farms hit by ransomware?

Wada Farms was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Japan), 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 Wada Farms breach?

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

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Wada Farms

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 20 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wada Farms is a third-generation family-owned grower-shipper headquartered in Idaho's Magic Valley, operating approximately 10,000 acres cultivating Idaho Russet potatoes, onions, and sweet potatoes. The company vertically integrates from field to branded retail, selling through national grocery chains and food distributors under brands including Potato King™, Wada Farms®, and Wada Farms Organic®, with in-house logistics and marketing services.

Industry: Agriculture and Food Production — Fresh Produce Grower-Shipper
Address: Magic Valley, Idaho, USA (primary operations); near Pocatello, Idaho (original 160 acres)
Employees: 50-150
Founded: 1945

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post is a listing/announcement with no proof files, proof count, data inventory description, or evidence of confirmed data exfiltration or operational impact. No regulated or sensitive data categories are identified.

The leak post announces data publication by thegentlemen but provides no specific details on the scope of exfiltration, encryption, or operational disruption. No data inventory, proof files, or ransom demand are mentioned in the disclosed excerpt.

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What the group claims

wadafarms.com Wada Farms third-generation family potato empire from Idaho — founded 1945 by Japanese-American farmer Albert Wada (whose family was interned at Minidoka camp during WWII, then returned and bought 160 acres near Pocatello); today run by the third generation (~10,000 acres in Magic Valley growing Idaho® Russet potatoes, onions and sweet potatoes) with its own climate-controlled storage, packing shed and three brands: Potato King™, Wada Farms® and Wada Farms Organic® — selling into national grocery chains, processors and export channels. Vertical integration from field to branded shelf; revenue undisclosed (est. $50–100M+); 50–150 seasonal/permanent staff

Sources

Victim sitewadafarms.com

Source

Indexed 20 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 868 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026Wada Farms listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 868 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 777 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Wada Farms is reported in Japan, a country with 89 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Wada Farms 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, JPCERT/CC (Japan), 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.