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Carita

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 days ago

4d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 11, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Listed on leak site
Jul 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Carita is a prestigious French luxury skincare brand founded in 1945, specializing in professional-grade beauty treatments and high-end cosmetics. Now part of L'Oréal's Luxury Division following its 2022 acquisition from Shiseido, the brand operates globally in over 130 countries with annual revenue of approximately $9–10 million.

Industry
Luxury Skincare & Cosmetics
Founded
1945

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published and disclosed status is confirmed, but the leak post provides no enumeration of proof files, specific data categories, or operational impact. The absence of detail and proof evidence prevents higher classification.

The ransomware group claims to have conducted an attack on Carita, with the leak post indicating data publication. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration scope, or data categories are provided in the available post excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

***.com zoominfo.com/c/carita/358348689 Carita is a prestigious French luxury skincare brand founded in 1945, renowned for its professional-grade beauty treatments and high-end cosmetics. Now part of L'Oréal's Luxury Division following its acquisition from Shiseido in 2022, the brand operates globally with a focus on exceptional skincare rituals and personalized beauty experiences. Available in over 130 countries, Carita combines innovative formulations with artisanal expertise, generating annual revenue in the range of $9-10 million for its core operations

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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 599 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 11, 2026Carita listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 599 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Carita is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Carita 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, CERT-FR (France), 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.