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 6, 2026DATAMATIC listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DATAMATIC is reported in IT, a country with 195 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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DATAMATIC

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 15 days ago

14d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Datamatic S.p.A. is an Italian company headquartered in Milan operating in the consumer electronics sector as a major distributor and sales organization. The company supports a network of distributors across Italy and beyond, with over 200 staff dedicated to sales, logistics, and partner support. Its estimated annual revenue is $50–100 million.

Industry: Consumer Electronics Distribution
Address: Milan, Italy
Employees: 251-500

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (data_published status) by the threat actor, indicating actual exfiltration and public release of business data from a mid-size commercial enterprise with 251-500 employees and $50-100M revenue, posing significant risk to the company and its distributor network.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have published data belonging to Datamatic S.p.A., with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. No specific ransom demand or data size was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business operational data
Sales records
Logistics data
Partner/distributor information

What the group claims

datamatic.it rocketreach.co/datamatic-spa-profile_b54e4ebcf94229d2 Datamatic S.p.A. is an Italian company headquartered in Milan, operating in the consumer electronics sector with an estimated revenue of $50–100 million and a workforce of 251–500 employees. The company functions as a major distributor and sales organization, supported by over 200 staff dedicated to sales, logistics, and partner support for its network of distributors. Its published company profile positions it as a reliable and dynamic organization focused on delivering strong commercial and operational support to trade partners across Italy and beyond

Sources

Victim sitedatamatic.it

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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