Was EEC Group hit by ransomware?

EEC Group was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Egypt), 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 EEC Group breach?

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

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Engineering Enterprises for Civil & Steel Constructions S.A.E. (EEC Group)

listed as EEC Group · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 2 months ago

47d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Egypt
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

EEC Group (Engineering Enterprises for Civil & Steel Constructions S.A.E.) is an Egyptian engineering and construction conglomerate headquartered at EEC Tower, Sheraton Heliopolis, Cairo. Founded in 1977, the company expanded into steel structure manufacturing in 1983 and has operated as a telecom infrastructure turnkey contractor since 1996. It operates across civil construction, steel fabrication, and telecommunications infrastructure sectors.

Industry: Engineering & Construction (Civil, Steel & Telecom Infrastructure)
Address: EEC Tower, Sheraton Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Founded: 1977

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (confirmed exfiltration and release) by the threat actor against a significant regional engineering and telecom infrastructure conglomerate, indicating meaningful business data exposure; however, no explicit regulated PII at scale or critical national infrastructure confirmation elevates it to critical.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked EEC Group, with the disclosure status listed as 'data_published', indicating data has been exfiltrated and released. No specific ransom demand or data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Engineering project files
Potentially financial and contractual records

What the group claims

eecegypt.com zoominfo.com/c/eec-group/372746808 EEC Group (Engineering Enterprises for Civil & Steel Constructions S.A.E.) is an Egyptian engineering and construction conglomerate headquartered at EEC Tower, Sheraton Heliopolis, Cairo. Founded in 1977 as a construction company, it expanded into steel structure manufacturing in 1983 and became a telecom infrastructure turnkey contractor from 1996 onwards

Sources

Victim siteeecegypt.com

Source

Indexed 2 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

April 26, 2026EEC Group 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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,643 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, EEC Group is reported in Egypt, a country with 15 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means EEC Group 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.