Was Comtec 2000 hit by ransomware?

Comtec 2000 was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Romania), 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 Comtec 2000 breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Comtec 2000. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Comtec 2000

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 4, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Romania
Listed on leak site: Mar 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Comtec 2000 Inc is a Romanian company (comtec-int.ro) specialising in the distribution and supply of professional electrical products, including industrial circuit breakers, contactors, fuses, sensors, lighting (LED), cable management systems, and related switchgear accessories. The company serves both industrial and residential markets across Romania. Its product catalogue covers a broad range of electrical installation and protection components.

Industry: Electrical Equipment Distribution & Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been marked as published, indicating exfiltration occurred; however, no specific data categories, file counts, or proof items are confirmable from the truncated/obscured leak post, limiting severity assessment below 'high'.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked Comtec 2000 and has published data ('data_published' status), though the leak post content was obscured by a bot-verification page and no specific details on encryption or exfiltration volume were extractable.

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What the group claims

comtec-int.ro zoominfo.com/c/comtec-2000-inc/459031613 COMTEC 2000 INC specializes in high-quality electrical products and professional equipment for industrial applications, catering to the needs of demanding clients. Their offerings include a wide range of electrical devices, lighting solutions, and photovoltaic systems, ensuring compliance with European standards. The company is committed to sustainability, implementing waste management and energy-efficient practices. With a focus on innovation, COMTEC provides advanced LED lighting and reliable telecommunications equipment to enhance modern infrastructure

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitecomtec-int.ro
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 3 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

March 4, 2026Comtec 2000 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, Comtec 2000 is reported in Romania, a country with 10 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Comtec 2000 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.