Was Gelarti hit by ransomware?

Gelarti was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Peru), 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 Gelarti breach?

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

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Gelarti (Popsy Group)

listed as Gelarti · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 20 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Peru
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gelarti is Peru's leading gourmet ice-cream parlor chain with 39 locations across the country's top malls, operating since 2013. It is the international brand of Colombia's Popsy (Danesi Cantagali Group), founded in 1981 by entrepreneur Álvaro Londoño. The group operates vertically across manufacturing, cold-chain logistics, B2B distribution, and 200+ retail locations across Colombia and Panama.

Industry: Food & Beverage — Gourmet Ice Cream & Gelato
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post is a listing/announcement only with no proof files, screenshots, or specifics about what data was taken or how the company was compromised. No operational impact is stated.

The ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Gelarti but provides no details on the scope or type of data compromised, nor does the post describe encryption or operational disruption.

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What the group claims

gelarti.com.pe zoominfo.com/c/gelarti/459647742 Gelarti Peru's leading gourmet ice-cream parlor chain — 39 shops & cafés in the country's top malls — operating since 2013 through Franquicias Unidas del Perú S.A.C. (RUC 20548498181). The twist: Gelarti is the international alias of Colombia's legendary Popsy (Danesi Cantagali Group, founded 1981 by UN-economist-turned-entrepreneur Álvaro Londoño and his wife Elena) — the Popsy name couldn't be registered abroad, so exports run under Gelarti ("gelato + arte"): Panama since 2003 (with its own plant, now claims #1 there) and Peru since 2013 (a $20M/50-store plan with local flavors lúcuma & pisco sour). Menu: copas (~S/19.90), milkshakes, frapps, 1L family tubs, crepes, pastries and coffee — a gelateria-café format with delivery via Rappi and its own site (ratings 4.1–4.4). The group behind it runs the full vertical: plants, cold chain, B2B distribution (Tottus, Tambo) and 200+ Popsy stores in 46 Colombian cities (~12M ice creams/year).

Sources

Victim sitegelarti.com.pe

Source

Indexed 20 hours 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 868 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026Gelarti listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 868 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Gelarti is reported in Peru, a country with 9 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Gelarti 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.