Was True Value hit by ransomware?

True Value was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), 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 True Value breach?

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

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True Value

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 21, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

True Value is a American hardlines wholesale cooperative headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, supplying hardware, tools, plumbing, electrical, and home improvement products to thousands of independent retail stores across the United States and internationally. Founded in 1948, it operates as a member-owned cooperative serving tens of thousands of retailer locations globally. In 2024 the company filed for bankruptcy and sold its assets to Do it Best Corp.

Industry: Hardware & Home Improvement Retail (Wholesale Cooperative)
Address: 8600 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, IL 60631, United States
Employees: 5000+
Founded: 1948

Attack summary

Severity: high — True Value is a major US wholesale retail cooperative with a large employee and partner/retailer base; a confirmed data_published status implies exfiltration and public release of potentially significant business, financial, or partner/customer data, warranting a high severity rating even without granular inventory details from the obscured post.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have published data belonging to True Value, with the disclosure status recorded as 'data_published', though the leak post itself is obscured by a bot-verification page and no explicit description of encrypted or exfiltrated content is available from the post text.

high

What the group claims

www.truevalue.com www.truevalue.com.kw https://www.zoominfo.com/c/true-value-kuwait/446819761 https://www.zoominfo.com/c/true-value-company-llc/63735176 True Value Kuwait offers a wide range of products for home and outdoor needs, including cookware, cleaning supplies, and outdoor furniture. The company provides same-day delivery for orders placed before 2 PM, ensuring quick service for its customers. Their product lineup features popular brands and items such as gas grills, coolers, and various home decor essentials. True Value Kuwait aims to cater to homeowners and outdoor enthusiasts looking for quality products at competitive prices.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.truevalue.com
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 21, 2026True Value 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 Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, True Value is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means True Value 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.