Ransomware victim disclosure

Heartland Growers

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 28, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: May 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Heartland Growers is a family-owned wholesale greenhouse located in Westfield, Indiana, operated by the Gapinski family since 1984. Spanning 30 acres with modern automated facilities, they supply spring annuals, holiday plants, hydroponic produce, and other flowering crops to garden centers, florists, landscapers, and retailers across the Midwest.

Industry: Wholesale Greenhouse & Nursery
Address: 2621 E 186th St. Westfield, IN 46074
Employees: 175
Founded: 1984

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post provides only a listing/announcement with company background information. No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised. No specific data exfiltration or operational disruption is claimed or evidenced.

The ransomware group claims to have compromised Heartland Growers' systems. No specific details are provided in the leak post regarding what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or the scope of operational impact.

low

What the group claims

heartlandgrowers.com zoominfo.com/c/heartland-growers/48466328 Heartland Growers is a family-owned wholesale greenhouse in Westfield, Indiana, operated by the Gapinski family since 1984. They supply spring annuals, holiday plants, and hydroponic produce to garden centers, florists, and retailers across the Midwest. Their 30-acre modern facility features advanced automation and a skilled workforce of up to 175 employees. Committed to innovation and quality, they combine decades of expertise with sustainable growing practices

Sources

Victim siteheartlandgrowers.com

Source

Indexed 3 days 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 442 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 28, 2026Heartland Growers listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Heartland Growers is reported in US, a country with 2,714 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.