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 9, 2026Arizona Professional Painting listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Arizona Professional Painting is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Arizona Professional Painting

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 12 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: May 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Arizona Professional Painting is a family-owned commercial and industrial painting contractor based in Phoenix, Arizona, established in 1994. The company serves diverse sectors including data centers, healthcare facilities, sports facilities, and industrial projects across Arizona. They hold SBE, WBE, MBE, and DBE certifications and offer interior/exterior painting, industrial coatings, floor coatings, and facility maintenance services.

Industry: Commercial & Industrial Painting Contractor
Address: Phoenix, Arizona, US
Founded: 1994

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the company is a small family-owned contractor with no stated evidence of large-scale regulated PII, medical, or financial data at risk, and no data size or specific sensitive data categories were enumerated.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Arizona Professional Painting with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Potentially client/project records
Internal documents

What the group claims

azpropaint.com Arizona Professional Painting is a family-owned and operated commercial and industrial painting contractor established in 1994, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company specializes in diverse sectors including data centers, healthcare facilities, sports facilities, industrial projects, and tenant improvements across the state. With SBE, WBE, MBE, and DBE certifications, they maintain an exceptional safety record with a .66 EMR rating and zero recordable on-the-job incidents. Their experienced team provides comprehensive interior and exterior painting, industrial coatings, floor coatings, and ongoing facility maintenance services.

Sources

Victim siteazpropaint.com

Source

Indexed 12 days ago

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