Was Orlík Compressors hit by ransomware?

Orlík Compressors was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Czechia), 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 Orlík Compressors breach?

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

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Orlík Compressors

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Czechia
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Orlík Compressors (Orlik – kompresory) is a Czech manufacturer and supplier of industrial compressed air equipment, including piston, screw, and scroll compressors, dryers, and pneumatic tools. The company is headquartered in Česká Třebová, Czech Republic, and offers complementary services such as compressor rental, servicing, metrology, and compressed air distribution project design. It operates an e-shop and serves both domestic and international markets.

Industry: Industrial Compressor Manufacturing & Services
Address: Kubelkova 497, CZ-560 02 Česká Třebová, Česká republika

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Status is listed as data_published suggesting exfiltration and publication occurred, but the leak post content is inaccessible (bot-check wall), no ransom amount is stated, no data volume is specified, and the company operates in industrial manufacturing without obvious regulated/sensitive personal data at scale. Evidence of actual published data exists in principle but cannot be verified from available sources.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked Orlík Compressors and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating data exfiltration and/or publication. The leak post content was not accessible due to a bot-verification page, so specific details on encrypted or exfiltrated data types cannot be confirmed from the post itself.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business contact records
Sales and customer data
Service and maintenance records
Potentially internal corporate documents

What the group claims

www.orlik.cz https://www.zoominfo.com/c/orli%CC%81k-compressors/399403693 Orlik specializes in the production and sale of compressors and related accessories, offering a range of piston, screw, and spiral compressors, as well as dryers and pneumatic tools. Their products are designed for industrial use, emphasizing high efficiency, reliability, and low maintenance requirements. In addition to product sales, Orlik provides services related to compressed air, including rental, servicing, and air consumption audits. Their intended clients include various industrial sectors that require reliable compressed air solutions.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.orlik.cz
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 5 months 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 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 20, 2026Orlík Compressors listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 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 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Orlík Compressors is reported in Czechia, a country with 5 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Orlík Compressors 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.
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.