Was Fundao Para hit by ransomware?

Fundao Para was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Brazil), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Fundao Para breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Fundao Para. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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FUNDAC – Fundação para o Desenvolvimento das Artes e da Comunicação

listed as Fundao Para · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Brazil
Listed on leak site: Feb 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FUNDAC (Fundação para o Desenvolvimento das Artes e da Comunicação) is a Brazilian non-profit foundation with over 22 years of experience operating in the Third Sector. It creates and manages social-interest projects in communication, marketing, arts, culture, education, and the environment, and provides management consultancy to public and private sector clients. The organisation is based in Santo André and São Paulo, and maintains partnerships with major public broadcasters and government bodies, with a network of over 700 journalists and broadcasters across São Paulo and Brasília.

Industry: Non-profit Communications, Arts & Culture Foundation
Address: Rua Dona Elisa Fláquer, 70, 3º andar, cj 33 - Centro, Santo André/SP – CEP 09020-160 / Av. Paulista, 568, 9º andar – Bela Vista, São Paulo/SP - CEP 01310-000

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Status is marked as data_published, suggesting data has been released rather than a mere listing; however, the leak post content is inaccessible, no ransom amount is stated, no data volume is provided, and no regulated/sensitive data categories are confirmed. The victim is a non-profit with public-sector contracts, raising moderate concern, but evidence is insufficient to escalate to high or critical.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' has listed FUNDAC under a disclosed/data-published status, indicating claimed exfiltration or publication of data; however, the group's leak post was inaccessible (bot-verification page), so the specific nature of encrypted or exfiltrated data and proof materials could not be verified from the post itself.

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What the group claims

fundac.org zoominfo.com/c/fundao-para-o-desenvolvimento-das-artes-e-da-comunicao/546996710 Fundac is a non-profit organization with over 22 years of experience, focusing on projects in communication, marketing, arts, culture, education, and the environment. It collaborates with public television and works closely with both public and private sectors to optimize communication processes and promote human dignity. The organization also offers courses in journalism and communication and emphasizes public-private partnerships for community benefit. With a strong team of over 1000 collaborators and a network of journalists, Fundac is committed to enhancing media outreach and public engagement

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitefundac.org
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 27, 2026Fundao Para listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Fundao Para is reported in Brazil, a country with 319 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Fundao Para appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on thegentlemen's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.