Was MoneyGram hit by ransomware?

MoneyGram 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 MoneyGram breach?

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

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MoneyGram

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 12, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MoneyGram is a global licensed money transmitter operating a network of nearly 500,000 agent locations across 200+ countries, facilitating approximately $200 billion in annual transfers. With 60+ million active customers and 85+ years of operational history, the company generates revenue primarily through transfer fees and currency exchange spreads. Taken private in 2023 for $1.8 billion, MoneyGram operates in 36 countries with approximately 2,000 employees and has recently expanded into digital offerings including its MGUSD stablecoin and Visa card products.

Industry: Financial Services - Money Transfer & Remittance
Employees: 2000
Founded: 1940

Attack summary

Severity: low — No evidence of data exfiltration, encryption deployment, or operational impact. The post lists only publicly available company information (revenue, structure, regulatory status, recent business developments). No proof files, screenshots, or confidential data samples are advertised. This appears to be a listing-only announcement without substantiation.

The group claims to have accessed MoneyGram systems; however, the leak post contains only company background information and financial details sourced from public disclosures (revenue, customer numbers, headcount reductions, acquisition history) with no specific data exfiltration claims, proof files, or operational disruption details provided.

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What the group claims

moneygram.com Revenue $2.1 Billion MoneyGram global money transfer network moving nearly $200 billion a year through almost 500,000 retail agent locations in 200+ countries and serving 60 million+ active customers, with over 70% of transactions now digital. It earns mainly from transfer fees plus currency exchange spreads, not from owning stores, since almost all locations are partner agents like post offices and grocery chains. In 2025 it cut 449 jobs to speed up digital growth and in 2026 launched its own MGUSD dollar stablecoin and a Visa card that spends digital dollars anywhere Visa works. MoneyGram owns no factories or stores, it is a licensed money transmitter with 75+ regulatory approvals, around 2,000 employees in 36 countries, and was taken private in 2023 for $1.8 billion.

Sources

Victim sitemoneygram.com
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion/#MoneyGram

Source

Indexed 5 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 966 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 12, 2026MoneyGram listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 966 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,196 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, MoneyGram 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 MoneyGram 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.