Ransomware victim disclosure

Mayelia Automotive

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 28, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: MX
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mayelia Automotive is an Ivorian company specializing in vehicle technical inspections, safety certifications, and corporate fleet solutions. Founded in 2019, it operates under the Mayelia Participations holding and serves individual drivers and businesses across multiple African sectors.

Industry: Automotive Technical Inspection & Services
Founded: 2019

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post contains only an announcement with no technical proof files, screenshots, or data samples visible. No specific data categories or operational impact are disclosed. Lack of evidence of actual data exfiltration or encryption impact.

thegentlemen group claims to have attacked Mayelia Automotive and published data. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data categories are provided in the post.

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What the group claims

mayelia.com zoominfo.com/c/mayelia-automotive/480899337 is an Ivorian automotive company specializing in vehicle technical inspections.Founded in 2019, it operates under Mayelia Participations holding across multiple African sectors.Services include technical checks, stickers, and corporate solutions for drivers and businesses.The company emphasizes customer service, modern equipment, and road safety education

Sources

Victim sitemayelia.com

Source

Indexed 3 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 442 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 28, 2026Mayelia Automotive listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Mayelia Automotive is reported in MX, a country with 52 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.