Was Area Limpia hit by ransomware?

Area Limpia was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Colombia), 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 Area Limpia breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Área Limpia D.C. S.A.S. E.S.P.

listed as Area Limpia · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 10, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Colombia
Listed on leak site: Feb 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Área Limpia D.C. S.A.S. E.S.P. is a public utility company (Empresa de Servicios Públicos) operating in Bogotá, Colombia's capital district. The company provides municipal services including waste collection and transport, street sweeping and cleaning, grass cutting, tree pruning, and area washing across the Distrito Capital. It maintains multiple citizen service centres and a main operational base in the Fontibón district.

Industry: Municipal Waste Collection & Urban Cleaning Services
Address: Avenida Calle 17 # 124-81, Barrio La Estancia, Fontibón, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a public utility company providing essential municipal waste management services to Bogotá's capital district; a confirmed data_published status implies exfiltration of potentially sensitive operational and citizen-facing data from a critical urban infrastructure operator, even though specific data types could not be verified from the blocked post.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked Área Limpia and lists the disclosure status as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published; however, the leak post itself was inaccessible (bot-verification wall), preventing confirmation of specific claims or data volumes.

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What the group claims

www.arealimpia.com.co https://www.zoominfo.com/c/rea-limpia/1332696378 Área Limpia Distrito Capital S.A.S E.S.P provides various cleaning and waste management services including mechanical and manual street sweeping, tree pruning, containerization for waste disposal, and public area washing. The company serves residential and commercial clients, ensuring the collection and transport of non-recyclable waste and maintaining public cleanliness. It aims to enhance urban environments through regular

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitewww.arealimpia.com.co
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 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

February 10, 2026Area Limpia 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

Geographically, Area Limpia is reported in Colombia, a country with 14 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Area Limpia 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.