Was ACFA hit by ransomware?

ACFA was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Canada), 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 ACFA breach?

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

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ACFA Régionale Grande Prairie (Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta)

listed as ACFA · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Listed on leak site: Feb 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ACFA (Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta) Régionale Grande Prairie is a non-profit francophone community organization serving the Grande Prairie region of Alberta, Canada since 1936. It provides local French-language programming, cultural activities, youth services (La Maison des Jeunes), summer camps, and community events to support francophone life in Alberta.

Industry: Francophone Cultural & Community Services
Address: 9928 111 Ave, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 4C3, Canada
Founded: 1936

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Disclosed status is 'data_published', suggesting data has been released, but the leak post is inaccessible (bot-wall), no data size is provided, and no specific data types are confirmed. The victim is a small non-profit community organisation likely holding member PII and operational records, warranting medium severity pending further verification.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims a data-published disclosure against ACFA; the leak post itself is obscured by an anti-bot challenge page, so specific claims of encryption or exfiltration cannot be confirmed from the post content. The disclosure status is marked as data_published with no ransom amount stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unknown — leak post content not accessible

What the group claims

grandeprairie.acfa.ab.ca zoominfo.com/c/acfa-régionale-de-grande-prairie/1310418607 ACFA Grande Prairie is dedicated to ensuring the development of the Francophone community in Alberta by providing support for regional initiatives. They offer a range of local activities and services in French, aimed primarily at Francophone individuals and families. Their programming includes cultural events, educational programming, and youth camps, as well as opportunities for community engagement through volunteering and memberships. The association focuses on fostering language pride, community involvement, and educational pursuits related to the Francophonie

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitegrandeprairie.acfa.ab.ca
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 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

February 26, 2026ACFA 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, ACFA is reported in Canada, a country with 810 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means ACFA 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.