Was INTERNET AG hit by ransomware?

INTERNET AG was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Germany), 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 INTERNET AG breach?

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

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INTERNET AG

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jul 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

INTERNET AG is a German IT service provider specializing in hosting, server solutions, and data center operations. They offer managed services, virtual servers, enterprise storage, network connectivity, and infrastructure management with facilities in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, serving corporate clients requiring high-availability infrastructure.

Industry: Web Hosting & Data Center Services
Address: Frankfurt am Main, Germany (multiple data center locations: Wiesenhüttenplatz 26, Rebstöcker Str. 55, Hanauer Landstr. 304, plus Amsterdam and Equinix FR5 Frankfurt)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirmed, but post lacks explicit details on data type, volume, or sensitivity. As a hosting provider, compromise could expose customer infrastructure data and configurations; however, no regulatory data (PII, financial, medical) explicitly mentioned. Operational impact to customers unclear.

The threat actor claims to have compromised INTERNET AG and published data. The post does not explicitly state whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail specific data categories affected.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer infrastructure data
Server configuration information
Network connectivity details

What the group claims

***.de zoominfo.com/c/inet/429716454 INTERNET AG is a professional German IT service provider specializing in reliable, sustainable, and flexible hosting and server solutions. The company delivers customized IT infrastructures, managed services, and global network connectivity tailored to complex business needs. Alongside its partner INTERNIC GmbH, it offers comprehensive enterprise software and secure digital operations for corporate clients

Sources

Victim siteinet.de

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 599 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 11, 2026INTERNET AG listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 599 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, INTERNET AG is reported in Germany, a country with 379 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means INTERNET AG 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-Bund (Germany), 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.