Was PLUS Malaysia Berhad hit by ransomware?

PLUS Malaysia Berhad was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Malaysia), 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 PLUS Malaysia Berhad breach?

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

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PLUS Malaysia Berhad

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 6, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Malaysia
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Feb 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PLUS Malaysia Berhad is Malaysia's largest highway concessionaire, operating expressways across the north, central, and south regions of Peninsular Malaysia. The company provides toll road infrastructure, rest-and-recharge (R&R) facilities, traffic management services, and traveller products such as the PLUS App, PLUSMiles rewards, and PLUSTrack fleet management. It serves millions of road users across Peninsular Malaysia and operates an emergency helpline (PLUSLine) at 1-800-88-0000.

Industry: Highway Toll Road Operations & Expressway Management
Address: Peninsular Malaysia (headquarters not explicitly stated in available excerpt)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The status is 'data_published', suggesting exfiltration has occurred, but the leak post content is entirely inaccessible (blocked by bot-check), no ransom amount is stated, no data size is given, and no specific data categories or proof files are confirmed. A national highway operator handling user PII and financial transaction data elevates this above low, but the absence of any verifiable evidence of regulated or sensitive data exposure prevents a higher rating.

The group 'thegentlemen' has listed PLUS Malaysia Berhad under a 'data_published' disclosure status, implying data has been exfiltrated and released; however, the leak post itself is blocked by an anti-bot verification page and yields no specific claims about encryption, exfiltration scope, or data categories.

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What the group claims

plus.com.my zoominfo.com/c/plus-malaysia-berhad/450191982 PLUS Malaysia Berhad provides a comprehensive travel experience through its expressways, offering facilities for relaxation and refreshment along the routes. The company enhances travel convenience with its PLUS App, which includes features like traffic updates, toll fare calculations, and a rewards program called PLUSMiles. Their services are designed for all road users in Peninsular Malaysia, ensuring smooth and safe journeys.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim siteplus.com.my
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 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

February 6, 2026PLUS Malaysia Berhad 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 847 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, PLUS Malaysia Berhad is reported in Malaysia, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means PLUS Malaysia Berhad 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.