Smart Value
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Full breach record for Smart Value →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
smartvalue.biz zoominfo.com/c/smart-value/408286294 Smart Value Limited is an Indian MLM (multi-level marketing) / network marketing company founded in 2003–2004 in New Delhi by Manoj Kumar Gupta, operating 100+ offices across India with a claimed 2,000,000+ distributors (IBAs). The company sells health supplements, personal care, household products, and educational courses — but revenue is not publicly disclosed (private MLM). Its core business model relies on recruiting new distributors rather than actual retail sales, with heavily inflated product pricing (200–500% above market) to fund multi-level commissions. The company faces serious and widespread allegations: consumer complaints about pyramid-like structure, inability to recover investments, fake income claims on social media, and reported law enforcement scrutiny in India. ~99% of participants lose money (standard MLM economics), while only top recruitment leaders profit. Despite 20+ years of operation and membership in Indian
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 6, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.