# Confluent listed as Thegentlemen ransomware victim

Published: 2026-10-12 · Severity: high · Sectors: technology
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/03c41627-b633-58ab-969f-6e4e1354699c/confluent-listed-as-thegentlemen-ransomware-victim

> Ransomware.live reports data-streaming vendor Confluent was claimed by the Thegentlemen ransomware group with compromised employee and user credentials.

This entry from Ransomware.live's victim-tracking platform lists Confluent, a data streaming infrastructure company, as a victim of the ransomware group operating under the name "thegentlemen." The listing is sourced from a leak site posting and includes limited telemetry: one compromised employee, 1,018 compromised user accounts, five third-party employee credential exposures, and 56 external attack surface findings, alongside DNS records for the victim's domain. No further details on the intrusion method, ransomware payload, or specific stolen data categories are provided in this record.

The entry appears to be an automated aggregation of a ransomware leak-site claim rather than original incident analysis, and provides no technical indicators of compromise, exploited vulnerabilities, or attack chain detail. Defenders at Confluent or its partners/customers should treat this as a data point warranting verification through official channels, review of third-party credential exposure, and monitoring for use of leaked credentials in follow-on attacks (e.g., infostealer-to-ransomware pivot referenced by the sponsor content).

## Mentioned in this report

- Threat actors: The Gentlemen

1 detection for this report is in the app: the rules that match its indicators, the Sigma rules already converted to Splunk SPL, to Elastic where their fields map onto Elastic's integrations and to Microsoft Defender XDR KQL wherever Defender records the activity, and the YARA and Suricata. A new account gets three days of them free.

Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/Q29uZmx1ZW50QHRoZWdlbnRsZW1lbg==

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