Was Grupo Tawa hit by ransomware?

Grupo Tawa 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 Grupo Tawa breach?

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

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Grupo Tawa

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Peru
Listed on leak site: Mar 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Grupo Tawa is a Peruvian-Chilean business group with over 18 years of operation, offering integrated outsourcing solutions including personnel management, process outsourcing, cleaning, maintenance, and commercial management. Operating through subsidiaries Tawa, ROM, and Limtek, the group serves more than 2,500 clients across Peru and Chile, contracting approximately 15,000 employees per year with annual revenues of approximately USD 120 million.

Industry: Business Process Outsourcing & Staffing Services
Address: Av. Pershing 465, Piso 2, Magdalena del Mar, Lima, Perú
Employees: 10001+

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is marked as published by the threat actor. Grupo Tawa handles large-scale staffing and HR outsourcing for 15,000+ employees per year across multiple countries, making likely exfiltrated data highly sensitive (employee PII, payroll, client contracts). Scale and nature of the business elevate this to high severity.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked Grupo Tawa and has published data ('data_published' status), though the leak post content is inaccessible due to a bot-verification challenge page, preventing confirmation of specific exfiltration or encryption claims.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Employee records (potential, given staffing scale)
Client records (potential, 2,500+ clients)
Financial data (potential, ~$120MM annual revenue operations)

What the group claims

grupotawa.com zoominfo.com/c/grupo-tawa/459512890 Grupo Tawa is a business group operating in Peru and Chile, dedicated to providing comprehensive business solutions that allow clients to focus on their core competencies. With over 18 years of experience, they offer expertise in personnel solutions, process outsourcing, cleaning, maintenance, and commercial management. The group serves more than 2,500 clients and employs over 15,000 individuals annually. Their commitment to excellence positions them as a reliable partner for companies across various industries

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitegrupotawa.com
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 3 months 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 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 23, 2026Grupo Tawa listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Grupo Tawa is reported in Peru, a country with 4 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Grupo Tawa 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.