Was Webb Electric Company of Florida hit by ransomware?

Webb Electric Company of Florida was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), 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 Webb Electric Company of Florida breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Webb Electric Company of Florida. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Webb Electric Company of Florida

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 14 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Sep 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Webb Electric Company of Florida, Inc. is a veteran-owned specialty electrical contractor founded in 1957, based in Cantonment, FL. The company specializes in underground power distribution (600V–35kV), substation replacements, medium-voltage upgrades, and airfield lighting systems, with 1,000+ completed federal projects and approximately $10–15 million in annual revenue.

Industry: Specialty Electrical Contracting & Defense Infrastructure
Address: Cantonment, FL
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1957

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Defense contractor with extensive U.S. government contracts (Navy, Air Force, Army Corps of Engineers, VA, USDA, FDA) and $96.6M in awarded defense contracts. No proof files or specific data claims are advertised in the post, but the company's critical infrastructure role and federal contracts elevate risk. Disclosed status is 'data_published' but no data inventory or proof count provided.

The group claims to have compromised Webb Electric Company of Florida. No specific data exfiltration or encryption claim is stated in the leak post excerpt provided; the disclosure appears to be a listing announcement.

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What the group claims

webbelectric.com Webb Electric Company of Florida (founded 1957, Cantonment/Pensacola, FL) is a veteran-owned specialty electrical contractor focused on underground power distribution from 600V to 35kV, substation replacements, medium-voltage upgrades and airfield lighting systems. It works almost exclusively for the U.S. government — Navy, Air Force, Army Corps of Engineers, VA, USDA and FDA — with 1,000+ federal projects completed nationwide (including Cuba and Hawaii) and roughly $96.6 million in defense contracts awarded between 2000 and 2020. Led by founder Jerry T. Webb and his children (President Daniel Webb, VP/Treasurer Melinda Schwartz), the company books $10–15 million a year and self-performs 98% of its work with its own crews. Landmark projects include a $16.7M runway lighting overhaul at Scott AFB and $15.4M in electrical work at Sheppard AFB. It competes on "best value" past performance and a strong safety record (OSHA-trained crews).

Sources

Victim sitewebbelectric.com

Source

Indexed 14 days 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 966 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

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Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2026Webb Electric Company of Florida listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 966 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 Energy & Utilities sector, which has 169 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Webb Electric Company of Florida is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Webb Electric Company of Florida 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, CISA (United States), 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.