Was Plaza Auto Mall hit by ransomware?

Plaza Auto Mall 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 Plaza Auto Mall breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Plaza Auto Mall. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Plaza Auto Mall

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Mexico
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Aug 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Plaza Auto Mall is a family-owned automotive dealership group based in Brooklyn, New York, operating since 1975. The group operates six locations along Nostrand Avenue, representing brands including Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, and Acura, offering new vehicles, pre-owned and certified pre-owned inventory, financing, service, parts, and collision repair services.

Industry: Automotive Retail & Dealership Services
Address: 2722–2800 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
Founded: 1975

Attack summary

Severity: low — Leak post is a generic company description with no proof files, no data inventory disclosed, and no confirmation of actual data exfiltration or encryption. No operational impact stated.

The ransomware operator claims to have compromised Plaza Auto Mall but provides no detail in the leak post about what data was exfiltrated or what operational impact occurred. The post contains only a general company description copied from public sources.

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What the group claims

plazaautomall.com zoominfo.com/c/plaza-auto-mall/194512238 Plaza Auto Mall is a family-owned dealership group based in Brooklyn, New York, that has been serving local drivers since 1975. They offer an extensive inventory of over 1,000 new, used, and certified pre-owned vehicles across multiple automotive brands all in one location. The platform also provides comprehensive automotive services, including financing options, vehicle maintenance, parts sales, and a dedicated body shop.

Sources

Victim siteplazaautomall.com

Source

Indexed 4 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 756 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post August 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 14, 2026Plaza Auto Mall listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 756 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 18 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Plaza Auto Mall is reported in Mexico, a country with 71 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Plaza Auto Mall 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.