Was Magnetos y Refacciones hit by ransomware?

Magnetos y Refacciones was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Mexico), 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 Magnetos y Refacciones breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Magnetos y Refacciones. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Magnetos y Refacciones

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Mexico
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Magnetos y Refacciones, S.A. de C.V. is a Mexican distributor of magnet wire, bearings, insulating varnishes, electric motors, and motor repair spare parts, operating wholesale and retail across Mexico since 1977. The company also operates a nationwide network of authorized service centers for Groupe SEB brands (Krups, T-Fal, Rowenta, Moulinex) and Taurus appliances, with approximately 129 employees and exports to Central America.

Industry: Electric Motors, Magnet Wire & Spare Parts Distribution; Authorized Service Centers
Address: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Employees: 129
Founded: 1977

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory is mentioned in the leak post. The disclosure is listing only, with no demonstration of access and no stated operational impact.

The leak post does not explicitly state what data was exfiltrated or encrypted, nor does it describe specific attack methods or data categories claimed to be compromised.

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What the group claims

magnetos.com.mx zoominfo.com/c/magnetos-y-refacciones-sa-de-cv/1288761434 Magnetos y Refacciones, S.A. de C.V. is a Mexican trading and service company founded in 1977 and headquartered in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Its core business is supplying magnet wire, bearings, insulating varnishes, electric motors, and spare parts for motor repair — wholesale and retail, serving customers across all 32 Mexican states. Its second key business is a nationwide network of authorized service centers performing warranty and post-warranty repair for Groupe SEB brands (Krups, T-Fal, Rowenta, Moulinex) and Taurus in 8–10 Mexican cities. The company employs around 129 people and is part of a small group operated by Corporación Rodaja. It also exports to Central America (mainly El Salvador), with about US$4.2 million in shipments over the last five years. Despite nearly 50 years on the market, it has virtually no digital presence — its website is an empty placeholder.

Sources

Victim sitemagnetos.com.mx

Source

Indexed 4 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 889 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2026Magnetos y Refacciones listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Magnetos y Refacciones is reported in Mexico, a country with 71 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Magnetos y Refacciones 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, CERT-MX (Mexico), 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.