Was Refako Autodele hit by ransomware?

Refako Autodele was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Denmark), 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 Refako Autodele breach?

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

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Refako ApS

listed as Refako Autodele · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Denmark
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Refako ApS is a Danish family-owned truck and trailer parts retailer founded in 1975, operating 13 stores nationwide with 200,000+ SKUs for consumers and 290,000 for B2B customers. As Denmark's authorized SAF-Holland partner, it specializes in premium automotive brands including WABCO, Knorr-Bremse, JOST, Dinex, and Exide, with strong customer satisfaction (Trustpilot 4.8/5).

Industry: Automotive Parts & Accessories Retail
Address: Odense, Denmark
Employees: 59-70
Founded: 1975

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files or screenshots provided; no claim of encryption or exfiltration of sensitive data; disclosure consists of operational and financial intelligence inferred from public sources or internal documents, but lacks confirmation of malicious intent or data breach.

The leak post provides detailed financial and operational information about Refako ApS but does not explicitly claim encryption, exfiltration, or specific data compromise. The post appears to be a business intelligence disclosure rather than a traditional ransomware attack announcement.

low

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial records (2020–2025)
Ownership structure
Operational metrics
Supplier partnerships
Customer satisfaction data

What the group claims

refako.dk REFAKO ApS (Refako Autodele) is a Danish family-owned truck and trailer parts retailer founded in 1975 in Odense, Denmark, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. It operates 13 stores nationwide with 200,000+ SKUs (290,000 for B2B) and employs 59–70+ people. Annual gross profit is ~26–27M DKK (~$3.7M), but the company has been loss-making for 6 consecutive years (2020–2025), with equity saved by owner injections (16.3M DKK in 2025) after hitting a crisis low of 2.7M in 2022. It turned operationally profitable in 2024 (+0.46M DKK) under new sole owner Klaus Allan Jørgensen (KJ Holding took 100% in May 2024), but slipped back into losses in 2025. Refako is Denmark's only authorized SAF-Holland partner (global leader in trailer axles/suspension) and carries premium brands like WABCO, Knorr-Bremse, JOST, Dinex, and Exide. Customer reputation is excellent — Trustpilot 4.8/5 from 2,695 reviews — with same-day shipping and 30-minute Click & Collect across its store network.

Sources

Victim siterefako.dk

Source

Indexed 5 hours 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 960 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 9, 2026Refako Autodele listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,699 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Refako Autodele is reported in Denmark, a country with 14 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Refako Autodele 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CFCS (Denmark), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.