Was All India Minerals hit by ransomware?

All India Minerals was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (India), 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 All India Minerals breach?

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

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All India Minerals

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 1, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Mar 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

All India Minerals (AIM) is an ISO 9001:2015 certified Indian mining company headquartered in Himatnagar, Gujarat, and claims to be India's largest manufacturer of Washed Sand and Graded Silica Sand. Founded in 1969 as a privately owned business by Mr. AliMiya Saiyed, AIM supplies silica sand for foundry, glass, sand blasting, and water filtration industries. The company operates mines around Ankleshwar, Gujarat, and maintains drying, sizing, and washing plants along with an in-house laboratory.

Industry: Industrial Minerals Mining & Processing
Address: AIM House, Nyay Mandir, Idar Road, Himatnagar-383001, Gujarat, India
Founded: 1969

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating some level of exfiltration claim, but the leak post content is entirely blocked by a bot-check page, yielding no verifiable proof files, data categories, or volume. Moderate severity assigned given the published status with no confirmable sensitive data.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims a data publication (disclosed status: data_published) against All India Minerals; however, the leak post itself is inaccessible due to a browser-verification challenge, preventing confirmation of specific exfiltration or encryption claims.

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What the group claims

allindiaminerals.com zoominfo.com/c/all-india-minerals/470618608 All India Minerals is India's largest manufacturer of Washed Sand and Graded Silica Sand, established in 1969. The company employs advanced technologies and strict quality controls to produce high-quality silica sand for various industrial applications, including foundry core, molding, and glass industries. They operate a state-of-the-art mining and washing facility near Ankleshwar, ensuring excellent product quality through dedicated testing and processing. Committed to ecological improvement, All India Minerals focuses on maintaining a pollution-free environment while delivering superior products to meet customer needs

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim siteallindiaminerals.com
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 3 months 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 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 1, 2026All India Minerals listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 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 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, All India Minerals is reported in India, a country with 255 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means All India Minerals 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.