Was Progeny hit by ransomware?

Progeny was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Antigua & Barbuda), 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 Progeny breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Erwin-Keith, Inc. (Progeny Ag Products)

listed as Progeny · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Antigua & Barbuda
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Erwin-Keith, Inc., operating under the Progeny brand since 1997, is a family-owned seed and grain company founded in 1984 in the Arkansas Delta. The company develops and markets soybean, corn, wheat, and rice varieties across 10–11 Southern U.S. states, operates grain elevators with rail facilities, runs a multi-state trucking fleet, and offers grain marketing programs. Estimated revenue is approximately $26 million.

Industry: Agricultural Seeds & Grain Marketing
Address: Wynne, Arkansas, USA
Employees: 100+
Founded: 1984

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only publicly available company information (website content, ZoomInfo profile) with no evidence of actual sensitive data exfiltration, operational disruption, or proof files. No confidential, financial, or regulated data is demonstrated to have been compromised.

The group claims to have accessed and published data from Progeny Ag Products. The leak post does not specify whether encryption occurred or detail the scope of exfiltrated data beyond the company's public information.

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What the group claims

progenyag.com zoominfo.com/c/progeny-ag/351504348 Erwin-Keith, Inc. (Progeny Ag Products) is a family-owned seed and grain company founded in 1984 in the Arkansas Delta (Wynne, Arkansas, USA), operating under the Progeny brand since 1997. The company develops and markets its own varieties of soybeans, corn, wheat, and rice, selling across 10–11 Southern U.S. states. Its rice brand ProGold is licensed from the University of Arkansas — and ProGold L4 and M3 varieties are now included in the university's official 2026 recommended planting list. Beyond seeds, the company runs grain elevators (including a rail facility), a trucking fleet across 9 states, and grain marketing programs (HTA, basis-only, and average pricing contracts). Estimated revenue is around $26 million with roughly 100+ employees (seasonal workforce included), and the business remains led by the founding Erwin and Keith families.

Sources

Victim siteprogenyag.com

Source

Indexed 4 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 889 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2026Progeny listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 889 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 3,579 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Progeny is reported in Antigua & Barbuda, a country with 4 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Progeny 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.