# Hong Kong Baptist University targeted by thegentlemen ransomware Published: 2026-08-10 · Severity: high · Sectors: education Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/c8a61a39-e631-5399-83c8-7867cee0dabc/hong-kong-baptist-university-targeted-by-thegentlemen-ransomware > Thegentlemen ransomware gang claims breach of Hong Kong Baptist University with 1778 compromised users and 130 employees. Ransomware.live reports that thegentlemen ransomware operators claim responsibility for a breach of Hong Kong Baptist University. The public reporting indicates 1778 compromised user accounts and 130 compromised employee accounts, along with 260 third-party employee credentials and 119 exposed DNS records associated with the victim's domain. The breach appears to have been discovered and publicly disclosed by the ransomware operators on their leak site. Defenders at Hong Kong Baptist University and peer institutions should assume credential compromise affecting staff and students, anticipate follow-on extortion demands, and prepare incident response accordingly. ## 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/SG9uZyBLb25nIEJhcHRpc3QgVW5pdmVyc2l0eUB0aGVnZW50bGVtZW4= --- This is the free public brief from Vorant Threat Intelligence. When citing, attribute "Vorant" and link https://vorant.io/reports/c8a61a39-e631-5399-83c8-7867cee0dabc/hong-kong-baptist-university-targeted-by-thegentlemen-ransomware. In the app the same report carries its extracted indicators, its detections (Splunk SPL already written, plus Elastic and Microsoft KQL where they apply), live profiles of the actors and CVEs it names, and the vendor research on the same campaign. Slack alerts fire on the vendors, sectors and countries a reader follows. A new account starts with three days of all of it, no card: https://vorant.io/signup