Was Datacomm Services hit by ransomware?

Datacomm Services 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 Datacomm Services breach?

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

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Datacomm Services

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 10 days ago

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since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

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

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Datacomm Services Corporation (DSC) is a regional low-voltage systems contractor based in Memphis, Tennessee, serving the Mid-South (TN, MS, AR) since 1988. The ~22-person firm designs and installs structured cabling, fiber optics, access control, CCTV, intrusion alarms, and paging/AV systems for offices, industrial sites, schools, and government entities, with annual revenue around $10 million.

Industry: Low-Voltage Systems Contracting & Structured Cabling
Address: 4739 S Mendenhall Rd, Memphis, TN 38141
Employees: 22
Founded: 1988

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only announcement and company profile information with no proof files, no explicit data inventory, no evidence of exfiltration, and no stated operational disruption. The disclosure lacks substantive evidence of a material breach.

The group claims to have breached Datacomm Services Corporation. No specific data exfiltration or encryption activity is detailed in the leak post; the post consists primarily of company background information and does not articulate what data was stolen or what operational impact occurred.

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What the group claims

dscdatacomm.com zoominfo.com/c/datacomm-services-corp/347799114 Datacomm Services Corporation (DSC) (operating since 1988, Memphis, Tennessee) is a low-voltage systems contractor serving the Memphis/Mid-South region (TN, MS, AR) for nearly 40 years. It designs and installs structured cabling (Cat 5e–Cat 6A and fiber optics), outside-plant networks, access control, CCTV, intrusion alarms and paging/AV systems — acting as a single point of contact for all low-voltage building systems. Led by President Allen Hendry and EVP/CEO Chuck Jennings, it runs a lean ~22-person team with two certified RCDD designers on staff and revenue around $10 million/year. Clients range from small service tickets to $1M+ projects — offices, industrial sites and especially school systems and government buyers (it holds TIPS purchasing contracts through 2028). It carries an A+ BBB rating and clean legal record, with strong reviews for workmanship and service. Main limits: purely regional footprint and dependence

Sources

Victim sitedscdatacomm.com

Source

Indexed 10 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 960 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

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Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2026Datacomm Services listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 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 Technology sector, which has 3,581 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Datacomm Services 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 Datacomm Services 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.