Was Velum hit by ransomware?

Velum was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation, 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 Velum breach?

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

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Velum

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jul 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

VELUM is a French family-owned manufacturer of custom LED lighting fixtures for professional indoor and outdoor applications, based in Bischoffsheim, Alsace since 1975. The company provides comprehensive support including lighting design studies, technical consultation, and tailored solutions for professional clients across multiple sectors.

Industry: Professional Lighting Manufacturing
Address: Bischoffsheim, Alsace, France
Founded: 1975

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business data (client contracts, databases, proprietary projects) and personal data at scale (hundreds of gigabytes); data already published; operational impact on a manufacturing business with established client relationships.

The group claims to have exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of data including database projects, client contracts, personal data, and business documents. The operator demands contact to prevent full publication of the stolen data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

database projects
client contracts
personal data
business documents

What the group claims

***.biz zoominfo.com/c/velum-inc/372599932 We are making some files publicly available. We have hundreds of gigabytes of your files, including database projects, client contracts, personal data, and documents. If you do not want to face the consequences of a data breach, please contact us; otherwise, everything will be published. VELUM is a French manufacturer of professional lighting solutions based in Bischoffsheim, Alsace, operating since 1975. The company specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing custom LED lighting fixtures for both indoor and outdoor environments. As a family-owned business, VELUM provides comprehensive support, including lighting studies, technical advice, and tailored solutions for professionals across various sectors

Sources

Victim sitevelum.biz

Source

Indexed 6 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 655 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 23, 2026Velum listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 655 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 Technology sector, which has 3,563 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Velum 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.