Was Neff Drexel hit by ransomware?

Neff Drexel was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Switzerland), 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 Neff Drexel breach?

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

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Neff & Drexel AG

listed as Neff Drexel · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 20 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Switzerland
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Neff & Drexel AG is a Swiss multimedia retailer and systems integrator founded in 1967 in Gais, Appenzell. The company sells, installs, and repairs consumer and professional audio/video equipment, including home Hi-Fi, home cinema systems, and pro-AV integration for institutional clients such as churches, schools, pools, and restaurants. It operates under the brand '1xRichtig' and is an accredited apprenticeship provider.

Industry: Multimedia Retail & Professional Audio/Video Integration
Address: Gaiserstrasse 46, Appenzell, AG, Switzerland
Founded: 1967

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised in the leak post. No specific data inventory or operational impact is claimed. The post is primarily a company listing and announcement without substantive evidence of successful compromise.

The threat actor claims to have accessed Neff & Drexel AG's systems. The leak post does not specify what data was exfiltrated or encrypted, nor does it detail the scope of operational disruption.

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What the group claims

neff-drexel.ch zoominfo.com/c/neff--drexel/431534427 Neff & Drexel AG Swiss multimedia retailer and integrator founded in 1967 in Gais (Appenzell) as a family Radio-TV shop — today operating as 1xRichtig ("once, correctly") from Gaiserstrasse 46, Appenzell (AG, UID CHE-105.772.429, capital CHF 100,000 after a June 2026 capital reduction from CHF 400,000). It sells, installs and repairs consumer and professional audio/video tech — home Hi-Fi and home cinema (with room-calibration via its own measurement system), plus pro-AV integration for churches, school halls, swimming pools, restaurants and boardrooms — and retails through the European Expert buying cooperative to match marketplace pricing. Run by Jakob Sutter (board president) and Markus Wetter — a 32-year multimedia veteran and former president of the Swiss radio/TV retailers' association for Eastern Switzerland + Liechtenstein — it's also an accredited apprenticeship company (Multimediaelektroniker EFZ, 4-year program).

Sources

Victim siteneff-drexel.ch

Source

Indexed 20 hours 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 868 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026Neff Drexel listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 868 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Neff Drexel is reported in Switzerland, a country with 39 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Neff Drexel 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, NCSC-CH (Switzerland), 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.