Was Spedidam hit by ransomware?

Spedidam was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (France), 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 Spedidam breach?

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

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Spedidam

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 8 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 7, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Jul 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Spedidam is a French collective management organization founded in 1959 that protects performers' neighboring rights. It manages the collection and distribution of royalties for performing artists in music and dance, supports cultural initiatives, and administers artist grants through programs like Génération Spedidam.

Industry: Collective Rights Management & Intellectual Property (Music/Performance)
Address: Paris, France
Founded: 1959

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Spedidam processes sensitive personal and financial data for thousands of performing artists (royalties, declarations, contact details). The disclosed_status is 'data_published' but no proof files or data samples are referenced in the provided leak post excerpt. Without confirmation of exfiltration or operational disruption, and given the absence of published proof evidence, severity is assessed as medium.

The leak post does not explicitly describe the attack method or data exfiltrated. Only a general announcement naming Spedidam as a victim is provided, with no details on encryption, exfiltration, or specific data compromised.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Artist payment records
Performer registration data
Recording declaration information
Artist contact and personal information

What the group claims

***.fr Spedidam, founded in 1959 by five musical performers, is a French collective management organization that protects performers' neighboring rights.The organization manages the collection and distribution of royalties for performing artists while supporting artistic and cultural initiatives.Based in Paris, it serves as one of France's key institutions for managing intellectual property rights in music and dance

Sources

Victim sitespedidam.fr

Source

Indexed 8 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 7, 2026Spedidam 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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Spedidam is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Spedidam 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.