Was PuroClean hit by ransomware?

PuroClean was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), 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 PuroClean breach?

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

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PuroClean

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PuroClean is North America's largest privately owned property damage restoration franchise with 500+ locations across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Operating under the brand name 'The Paramedics of Property Damage®', it provides 24/7 emergency services including water damage mitigation, fire and smoke restoration, mold remediation, biohazard cleanup, and reconstruction. The franchisor generated $31.8 million in audited revenue in FY2025.

Industry: Property Damage Restoration & Emergency Services
Address: Tamarac, Florida, US
Founded: 2001

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only announcement and corporate background information with no details about what data was actually compromised, exfiltrated, or encrypted. No proof files, screenshots, or operational disruption are mentioned. The disclosure lacks substantive evidence of a successful attack.

The group claims to have accessed PuroClean systems and published data. The post does not specify what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or the nature of the operational impact.

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What the group claims

puroclean.com purocleanfranchise.com PuroClean is North America's largest privately owned property damage restoration franchise, known as "The Paramedics of Property Damage®", with 500+ franchise locations across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, headquartered in Tamarac, Florida. It provides 24/7 emergency services — water damage mitigation, fire and smoke restoration, mold remediation, biohazard cleanup, and reconstruction — responding within two hours, and is a preferred provider for 3 of the top 5 U.S. insurance carriers. The brand was launched in 2001 under the legal entity PuroSystems, LLC; in 2015 it was acquired by Mark W. Davis (former co-founder/CEO of Belfor North America) and Frank Torre, who grew the network from 222 to 500+ locations. The franchisor's audited revenue is $31.8 million (FY2025), while system-wide franchise sales exceed $400 million, with an average franchise unit generating ~$942K per year.

Sources

Victim sitepuroclean.com

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.

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Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2026PuroClean 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:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, PuroClean is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means PuroClean 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, CISA (United States), 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.