Was Drinks Wines Spirits hit by ransomware?

Drinks Wines Spirits was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Taiwan), 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 Drinks Wines Spirits breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Drinks Wines & Spirits Co., Ltd.

listed as Drinks Wines Spirits · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 10 days ago

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since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Taiwan
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Sep 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Drinks Wines & Spirits Co., Ltd. (Oak Barrel/橡木桶洋酒) is Taiwan's largest liquor retail and import chain, operating 33–35 stores nationwide. Founded in 1993 by Chen Chun-an, the company pioneered wine-tasting culture in Taiwan and holds exclusive Taiwan distribution rights for major whisky and wine brands. Annual revenue is approximately NT$2 billion (US$60M).

Industry: Liquor Retail & Import
Address: Taipei, Taiwan
Employees: 200-300
Founded: 1993

Attack summary

Severity: low — Leak post contains only listing/announcement with no proof files, screenshots, or operational impact stated. No data inventory or exfiltration details disclosed.

The group claims to have breached Drinks Wines & Spirits Co., Ltd. No specific details are provided in the leak post regarding what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred.

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What the group claims

drinks.com.tw zoominfo.com/c/drinks-wines--spirits-co-ltd/425924055 DRINKS / Oak Barrel (橡木桶洋酒, Drinks Wines & Spirits Co., Ltd.) (founded 1993, Taipei) is Taiwan's largest liquor retail and import chain — 33–35 stores nationwide with about NT$2 billion (US$60M) annual revenue and 200–300 staff. Founded by "godfather of imported liquor" Chen Chun-an (died February 2026 at 80), it pioneered the wine-tasting culture in Taiwan through its Wine Party magazine, six tasting classrooms and a discount-store format with near-franchise store-manager economics. Beyond retail, it holds exclusive Taiwan agency rights for major whisky brands (Arran, Bladnoch, Raasay, Benromach, Paul John, Lauder's) and wines (Mouton Cadet, Lanson, Santa Rita), and releases exclusive single-cask bottlings for the local market. A 2008 attempt to expand into Shanghai failed within six months, and a pricing war with rival JT Mall made headlines. Since December 2025 the chairman has been Wu Mei-ling, leading a family-own

Sources

Victim sitedrinks.com.tw

Source

Indexed 10 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 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.

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Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2026Drinks Wines Spirits listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Drinks Wines Spirits is reported in Taiwan, a country with 58 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Drinks Wines Spirits 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.