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Ligue-se Grupo

listed as Ligue se Grupo · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 26, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
Portugal
Listed on leak site
Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ligue-se Grupo is a Portuguese IT and business-services conglomerate founded in 2009 in Funchal, Madeira, originating from the merger of accounting firm Contatlântico and IT company Enterformatic. The group operates multiple business lines: Chip7 (retail computer stores in Madeira and Lisbon selling PCs, laptops, accessories and repair services), GoClick (B2B IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP solutions and hotel-tech), and Ligue.Gest (accounting, payroll and tax consulting), primarily serving SMEs and private clients across Madeira and mainland Portugal.

Industry
IT Services & Business Consulting
Address
Travessa da Infância, nº 9, 9060-131 Funchal, Portugal
Founded
2009

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, the post lacks specific detail on data types, scale, or sensitivity. The company handles accounting records, payroll, tax consulting and IT infrastructure—potentially sensitive for SME clients—but no regulated data categories (medical, government) are explicitly confirmed.

The threat actor claims to have compromised Ligue-se Grupo and published exfiltrated data. The leak post does not specify the scope of data exfiltration, encryption activity, or operational impact.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business records
  • Client information
  • Financial data
  • IT infrastructure details

What the group claims

grupoligue-se.pt Ligue-se Grupo is a Portuguese IT and business-services group founded in 2009 in Funchal, Madeira (born from the merger of accounting firm Contatlântico and IT company Enterformatic). It runs several businesses: Chip7 retail computer stores (Madeira + Lisbon) selling PCs, laptops and accessories with repair services; GoClick, a B2B IT arm handling infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud/Microsoft 365, ERP software (Sage, PHC, ZoneSoft) and hotel-tech solutions; and Ligue.Gest, offering accounting, payroll and tax consulting. Led by CEO Ivo Herculano Caires and CFO Élia Caires, it targets SMEs and private clients across Madeira and mainland Portugal. In short: one group covering everything from hardware sales and repairs to IT management and bookkeeping.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours 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 889 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 26, 2026Ligue se Grupo listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 889 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full thegentlemen dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Ligue se Grupo is reported in Portugal, a country with 8 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Ligue se Grupo 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.PT (Portugal), 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.