high severity October 11, 2026 · 1 min read Unverified claim — what this is

Confluent Listed by The Gentlemen Ransomware Group

If you are a customer of Confluent, here’s what is being claimed, and what it would mean for you.

confluent.io Revenue $1.16 Billion Confluent is the enterprise data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that lets companies process live events like payments, orders and sensor data in real time, and it is now owned by IBM which bought it for about $11 billion in March 2026. It ended 2025 with 6,690 customers including roughly 40% of the Fortune 500 and grew revenue 21% with its cloud segment alone growing 27%. Customers include BMW, L'Oreal, Michelin and Ticketmaster and the platform runs across 60+ cloud regions on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Money comes from cloud usage and software s
— from The Gentlemen’s own leak-site posting. This is the group’s claim, quoted verbatim; it is not GalaxyWarden’s reporting and has not been independently verified.

Confluent Listed by The Gentlemen Ransomware Group

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Attributed to The Gentlemen · 1022 incidents tracked →

Severity High the filing does not enumerate what was exposed

Disclosed October 11, 2026

Last reviewed October 11, 2026

Affected Unconfirmed

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Sources: The Gentlemen leak site (via RansomLook)

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