Was Erg Otoyol hit by ransomware?

Erg Otoyol was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Turkey), 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 Erg Otoyol breach?

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

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ERG Otoyol Yatırım ve İşletme A.Ş.

listed as Erg Otoyol · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Turkey
Listed on leak site: Feb 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ERG Otoyol Yatırım ve İşletme A.Ş. is a Turkish infrastructure company responsible for the investment and operation of the Ankara–Niğde Motorway (Otoyolu), a major section of the Trans-European Motorway (TEM) corridor linking northern and southern Turkey. The project connects Ankara to Niğde and is part of a broader route spanning Edirne to Şanlıurfa, also facilitating tourist access to Cappadocia and surrounding regions. The company is headquartered in Gölbaşı, Ankara.

Industry: Toll Road Infrastructure & Motorway Operations
Address: Gaziosmanpaşa Mahallesi 79/1 Sokak No: 6 M, Gölbaşı / Ankara, Turkey
Founded: 2018

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is an operator of critical transport infrastructure (a major national motorway in Turkey). Data has reportedly been published, indicating confirmed exfiltration. Compromise of a critical infrastructure operator's systems and data—potentially including land acquisition records, engineering data, customer payment/PII, and operational systems—warrants a high severity rating even without full visibility into the leaked dataset.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised ERG Otoyol and has published data (disclosed status: data_published); however, the leak post itself was inaccessible due to a bot-verification challenge, so specific details on encryption, exfiltration volume, or data categories could not be extracted from the post.

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What the group claims

ergotoyol.com.tr zoominfo.com/c/erg-otoyol-yatırım-ve-i̇şletme-aş/463324492 ERG Otoyol Yatırım ve İşletme A.Ş. is focused on the Ankara-Niğde Motorway Project, which aims to provide high-standard, safe, and uninterrupted transportation across Turkey. The project is significant for connecting the northern and southern regions of the country and enhancing access to various tourism sites along the route. The company operates in accordance with its corporate values and business principles

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim siteergotoyol.com.tr
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 11, 2026Erg Otoyol 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, Erg Otoyol is reported in Turkey, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Erg Otoyol 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.