Was ENKEI******* hit by ransomware?

ENKEI******* was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation, 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 ENKEI******* breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Enkei Corporation (U.S. operations)

listed as ENKEI******* · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Enkei is the U.S. production arm of a major Japanese automotive wheel manufacturer, specializing in light-alloy aluminum wheels for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company operates a casting plant in the American Midwest with in-house die-making capability, supplying factory rims directly to mass-market Japanese automakers and EV manufacturers for vehicle assembly lines.

Industry: Automotive Parts & Wheels Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status and operational context (manufacturing/supply chain) suggest exfiltration occurred, but no proof files are mentioned, data inventory is absent, and no regulated data categories are explicitly confirmed. Supply chain disruption risk is present given the automotive OEM relationship.

The threat actor claims to have accessed Enkei's systems and exfiltrated data. The post does not specify encryption, data types, or operational disruption; it appears to be an initial announcement.

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What the group claims

This company specializes in manufacturing light-alloy aluminum wheels for automakers — that is, it supplies factory rims for new cars rather than selling to retail consumers. It is the U.S. production arm of a major Japanese group, a global leader in this industry, with a casting plant in the American Midwest and its own in-house die-making capability. Its main clients are large car manufacturers (mass-market Japanese brands and new EV makers), with products going straight to vehicle assembly lines. The business is currently undergoing restructuring: part of its capacity is being shut down due to labor shortages and high operating costs, with production being consolidated at a single plant.

Source

Indexed 4 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 889 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2026ENKEI******* listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 889 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.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means ENKEI******* 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.