Was Mikel Coffee hit by ransomware?

Mikel Coffee was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Mexico), 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 Mikel Coffee breach?

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

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Mikel Coffee Company

listed as Mikel Coffee · 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: Mexico
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Aug 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mikel Coffee Company is a Greek coffeehouse chain founded in 2008 in Larissa that has expanded into a global brand. It operates over 410 coffee shops across 19 countries, offering premium coffee blends, beverages, snacks, and retail products.

Industry: Coffee Shop Retail & Beverage
Founded: 2008

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post is a listing/announcement with no proof files, screenshots, or specific description of accessed or exfiltrated data provided. No operational impact stated.

The group claims to have attacked Mikel Coffee Company, but the leak post provides no specific details about what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or compromised.

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What the group claims

mikelcoffee.com zoominfo.com/c/mikel-coffee/456172290 Mikel Coffee Company is a prominent Greek coffeehouse chain that began its journey in 2008 in the city of Larissa. It has rapidly expanded into a global brand, operating a network of over 410 coffee shops across 19 different countries. The company offers a comprehensive menu of premium coffee blends, beverages, snacks, and retail products, focusing on delivering a unique and welcoming coffee experience.

Sources

Victim sitemikelcoffee.com

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, 2026Mikel Coffee 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 19 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Mikel Coffee is reported in Mexico, a country with 71 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Mikel Coffee 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, CERT-MX (Mexico), 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.