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 424 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 9, 2026Misr Chemical Industries listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Misr Chemical Industries is reported in EG, a country with 15 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Misr Chemical Industries

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 12 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: EG
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Misr Chemical Industries Co. (MCI) is a publicly listed chemical manufacturer headquartered in Alexandria, Egypt, trading on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX). Founded in 1959, it is the oldest Egyptian producer of liquid caustic soda, chlorine gas, and derivatives, including hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite, ferric chloride, and compressed hydrogen gas. MCI serves industrial clients across Egypt and the Middle East, supplying inputs to food, pharmaceutical, soap, oil & gas, and water-treatment industries.

Industry: Industrial Chemical Manufacturing (Chlor-Alkali & Derivatives)
Address: El Max - Alexandria, Abd El Salam Aref St, Tahrir Square - Cairo (Main Center)
Founded: 1959

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor against a publicly listed chemical manufacturer operating critical industrial infrastructure (chlorine gas, caustic soda, compressed hydrogen). Exfiltration of financial statements, corporate information, and operational data from a regulated publicly traded entity on a national exchange constitutes significant business and potentially regulated data exposure. The industrial nature of the victim (hazardous chemical production) elevates operat

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised MCI and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data. No specific ransom amount or data volume has been stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company financial statements and reports
Stock and insider trade information
Corporate documents
Operational/factory data
Employee or organizational records (inferred)

What the group claims

mci.com.eg Misr Chemical Industries Co. (MCI), founded in 1959 and headquartered in Alexandria, Egypt, is a publicly listed chemical manufacturer on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX). As the oldest Egyptian producer of liquid caustic soda, chlorine gas, and derivatives, the company specializes in manufacturing chemicals including hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide solutions, and compressed hydrogen for domestic and regional markets. MCI serves industrial clients across Egypt and the Middle East, focusing on meeting local demand while exporting surplus production to support regional chemical supply chains.

Sources

Victim sitemci.com.eg

Source

Indexed 12 days ago

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