Was Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating hit by ransomware?

Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating 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 Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 13 days ago

12d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Tommy Garner Air Conditioning & Heating is a family-owned Class A HVAC contractor founded in 1986 by Tommy and Chrissy Garner in Newport News, Virginia. It serves the Hampton Roads region with commercial and residential air conditioning, heating, generator, water heater, commercial refrigeration, and indoor air-quality solutions, employing 35–39 people with an A BBB rating.

Industry: HVAC Contractors & Installation Services
Address: Newport News, Virginia, US
Employees: 35-39
Founded: 1986

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised in the post. No specific data exfiltration or encryption is claimed. The post is primarily a listing and company profile with no stated operational impact or evidence of compromise.

The leak post does not specify what data was exfiltrated or encrypted, nor does it detail the nature of the attack or data at stake. The disclosure status indicates data was published, but no attack methodology or data inventory is described in the provided post.

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What the group claims

tommygarner.com zoominfo.com/c/tommy-garner-air-conditioning--heating/140230813 Tommy Garner Air Conditioning & Heating (Tommy Garner, Inc., founded 1986 by Tommy and Chrissy Garner in Newport News, Virginia) is a family-owned Class A HVAC contractor serving the Hampton Roads region for 40 years. It provides commercial and residential air conditioning, heating, generators (authorized Honeywell dealer), water heaters, commercial refrigeration and indoor air-quality solutions — with 24-hour emergency service, 30-day service guarantees and 1-year installation warranties. Led today by founder Tommy Garner alongside his son Zach and daughter Lauren Jett, the company employs 35–39 people and was named Virginia Peninsula Chamber Small Business of the Year 2024 and a 2025 Best Places to Work in Virginia (the only HVAC firm on the list). Its reputation is exceptional — an A BBB rating and 5-star reviews from clients including the Virginia Living Museum

Sources

Victim sitetommygarner.com

Source

Indexed 13 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 966 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2026Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 966 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 Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Tommy Garner Air Conditioning Heating 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.