# Philippine Savings Bank claimed by thegentlemen ransomware

Published: 2026-08-01 · Severity: high · Sectors: financial-services
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/4e5b6b45-60ce-536b-9421-38e28ee75b7e/philippine-savings-bank-claimed-by-thegentlemen-ransomware

> thegentlemen ransomware gang claims compromise of Philippine Savings Bank with exfiltration of employee and user credentials.

The thegentlemen ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for a breach of Philippine Savings Bank. According to the public claim, the attack compromised seven employees, 212 user accounts, and 15 third-party employee credential sets. The attackers report identifying 25 points on the victim's external attack surface. The claim does not specify the attack vector, initial compromise method, or operational details. The listing appears on ransomware.live, a tracking service that indexes publicly disclosed breach claims by ransomware operators. As with all such claims, the underlying compromise details and actual data exfiltration remain unverified by independent sources; Philippine Savings Bank has not made a public statement confirming the incident. Defenders at financial institutions should monitor for indicators of compromise associated with thegentlemen activity and apply standard hardening measures against credential-based attacks and lateral movement.

## Mentioned in this report

- Threat actors: The Gentlemen
- Malware: 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/UGhpbGlwcGluZSBTYXZpbmdzIEJhbmtAdGhlZ2VudGxlbWVu

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