Was Hospital del Sur hit by ransomware?

Hospital del Sur was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Argentina), 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 Hospital del Sur breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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E.S.E. Hospital del Sur

listed as Hospital del Sur · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Argentina
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Apr 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

E.S.E. Hospital del Sur is a public healthcare institution (Empresa Social del Estado) located in Itagüí, Antioquia, Colombia. It operates under the Colombian government and provides first-level medical services including general consultations, hospitalization, imaging, clinical laboratory, dentistry, pharmacy, emergency care, and vaccination programs. It serves the general population of the Itagüí municipality.

Industry: Public Healthcare – First-Level Hospital
Address: Itagüí, Antioquia, Colombia

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a public hospital and the data is confirmed published ('data_published'), meaning regulated sensitive health data — including patient PII, medical histories, laboratory and imaging results — belonging to a vulnerable population has been exfiltrated and disclosed. This constitutes a critical breach of medical and personal data at a government healthcare institution.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked E.S.E. Hospital del Sur and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration of hospital records. The disclosure status is 'data_published', suggesting patient and/or operational data has been leaked.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Laboratory results
Imaging/radiology data
Emergency care records
Hospitalization records
Appointment and scheduling data
Staff/HR records
Administrative and financial documents
PQRSD (complaints/petitions) data

What the group claims

hospitaldelsur.gov.co zoominfo.com/c/hospital-del-sur-itag-gabriel-jaramillo-piedrahita-sede-santamara/547031936 E.S.E Hospital del Sur is a healthcare institution located in Itagüí, Antioquia, Colombia, providing a range of medical services including general consultations, hospitalization, imaging, laboratory services, and emergency care

Sources

Victim sitehospitaldelsur.gov.co

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 8, 2026Hospital del Sur 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 Healthcare sector, which has 1,780 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hospital del Sur is reported in Argentina, a country with 24 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Hospital del Sur 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.