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 424 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026Levante Living listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Levante Living is reported in IT, a country with 195 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Levante Living

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 15 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Levante Living is a Canadian-owned senior living enterprise founded in 2016 by Michael Petersen and Jim MacDonald, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company acquires, manages, and redevelops senior housing across North America, currently operating 24 retirement residences across Ontario. Its services span independent living, assisted living, memory care, respite care, and long-term care, with over $175 million in senior living assets under management and approximately 1,600 investors.

Industry: Senior Living & Retirement Housing
Address: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Employees: 600
Founded: 2016

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Levante Living operates 24 senior care residences, meaning data likely includes regulated health and personal information (PII) for vulnerable elderly residents, medical/care records, employee records, and financial data for ~1,600 investors. Data has been confirmed published, constituting a critical regulated-data exposure at scale in a healthcare-adjacent sector.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Levante Living and has published data (disclosed status: data_published). The victim operates senior care facilities, suggesting the exposed data likely includes sensitive resident, employee, and investor records.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Resident personal information
Employee records
Investor data (~1,600 investors)
Financial records (~$175M AUM)
Operational/facility data

What the group claims

levanteliving.com zoominfo.com/c/levante-living-lp/388951109 Levante Living is a Canadian-owned senior living enterprise founded in 2016 by Michael Petersen and Jim MacDonald, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, focused on acquiring, managing, and redeveloping senior housing across North America. The company currently operates 24 retirement residences across Ontario, employs over 600 team members, and manages approximately 1,600 investors with over $175 million in senior living assets. Its service offerings span the full care spectrum — independent living, assisted living, memory care, respite care, and long-term care — guided by the values of dignity, compassion, integrity, and excellence

Sources

Victim sitelevanteliving.com

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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