Was CONTAC Ingenieros hit by ransomware?

CONTAC Ingenieros was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Chile), 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 CONTAC Ingenieros breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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CONTAC Ingenieros

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 16 days ago

16d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 10, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Chile
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CONTAC is a technology services company based in Santiago, Chile, specializing in operations and asset management technologies. They provide automation services, real-time information systems, and custom solutions to industrial clients to optimize asset management, reduce costs, and improve operational reliability.

Industry: Industrial Operations & Asset Management Technology Services
Address: Santiago, Chile

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data disclosed with published status, but no proof files/screenshots advertised, no specific sensitive data types confirmed, and no operational impact or ransom demand stated. Classification reflects general business data exposure without evidence of PII, financial records, or critical infrastructure impact.

The threat actor claims to have compromised CONTAC and published data. No specific attack method (encryption vs. exfiltration) or data inventory details are disclosed in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business operations data
Client project information
Operational systems documentation

What the group claims

contac.cl zoominfo.com/c/contac-ingenieros-division-sistemas/372522727 Contac is a technology company based in Santiago, Chile, specializing in operations and asset management technologies. They provide comprehensive automation services and real-time information systems to help industrial clients maximize their operational performance. The company focuses on delivering custom solutions to optimize asset management, reduce costs, and improve overall system reliability.

Sources

Victim sitecontac.cl

Source

Indexed 16 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 785 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 10, 2026CONTAC Ingenieros listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 785 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 14 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CONTAC Ingenieros is reported in Chile, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means CONTAC Ingenieros 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.