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Meridian Logistics Group

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 2 days ago

1d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 22, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Transportation
Listed on leak site
Aug 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Meridian Logistics Group is a US-based transportation and logistics company with 50 years of operating history. They operate a fleet of 570+ skilled drivers, service 67+ countries, and provide air freight, ocean freight, ground transport, warehousing, and supply chain solutions with approximately 10 million miles driven annually.

Industry
Freight Transportation & Logistics
Employees
570

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive business data (ERP, dispatch operations, payroll) from an operational logistics company. Payroll data includes PII; operational databases could impact supply chain continuity. No proof files published yet, but threat actor signals imminent publication.

The threat actor claims to have staged a full network image and recovered ERP exports, dispatch database, and payroll archives. Data is stated as 'pending final inventory before publication,' indicating exfiltration but not yet public disclosure at time of post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • ERP system exports
  • Dispatch database
  • Payroll archives
  • Network image

What the group claims

Full network image staged. ERP exports, dispatch DB and payroll archives recovered. Pending final inventory before publication.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 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 785 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 22, 2026Meridian Logistics Group listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 785 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 Transportation sector, which has 47 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Meridian Logistics Group is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Meridian Logistics Group 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.