Was EMCO Holding hit by ransomware?

EMCO Holding was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Germany), 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 EMCO Holding breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Grupo EMCO Holding

listed as EMCO Holding · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Grupo EMCO Holding is a Central American conglomerate with significant investments across multiple sectors including airport operations, cargo terminals, steel production and manufacturing, and energy generation projects. The group positions itself as one of the most prominent and prestigious business groups in Central America. It operates through a portfolio of companies guided by a stated philosophy of excellence and responsibility.

Industry: Diversified Industrial Conglomerate (Airport, Cargo, Steel & Energy)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely listed), indicating confirmed exfiltration from a large diversified conglomerate with operations in critical infrastructure sectors including airports, cargo terminals, and energy generation, which elevates the potential impact significantly.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Grupo EMCO Holding and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it quantify the volume of data involved.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Potentially financial records
Potentially operational documents

What the group claims

emcoholding.com Grupo EMCO Holding is a conglomerate of prestigious companies operating in different areas, guided by a philosophy of excellence and responsibility, with significant investments in Central America. In recent years, the group has diversified and has strongly positioned itself in fields such as the airport sector, cargo terminals, steel production, and steel manufacturing, and is currently developing energy generation projects. Thanks to its major projects, rapid growth, and investments, Grupo EMCO has established itself as one of the most important, strongest, and most prestigious groups in Central America.

Sources

Victim siteemcoholding.com

Source

Indexed 2 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

April 8, 2026EMCO Holding 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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, EMCO Holding is reported in Germany, a country with 334 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means EMCO Holding 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.