Dekoyap Listed by thegentlemen Ransomware Group

On February 19, 2025, the ransomware group known as thegentlemen added Turkish building-supplies company Dekoyap to its public leak site, claiming that internal files had been exfiltrated from the retailer’s systems.

What's Publicly Reported from Reporting

Public reporting indicates Dekoyap operates a large ceramics, parquet, and sanitary-ware store in Kocasinan, Kayseri, Turkey. The company employs between 10 and 19 people and generates annual revenue estimated between 1M and 5M. Its customer and supplier records, contracts, employee information, and other internal documents appear to have been taken during a ransomware incident. The exact number of individuals whose data may have been exposed remains unknown. The thegentlemen leak site lists Dekoyap alongside a direct link to the company’s ZoomInfo profile and website, www.dekoyap.net.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a retailer like Dekoyap suffers a breach, the information stolen often includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email accounts, and payment details of everyday customers. If you or anyone in your household has shopped there, your data may now sit on a dark-web leak site. That exposure can lead to spam, phishing texts, identity theft, or fraudulent purchases charged to cards you used at the store. Because the files were allegedly exfiltrated rather than simply encrypted, the data can be downloaded by anyone who visits the leak site, increasing the chance that criminals will target you and your family months or even years later.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risk

Stolen retail records rarely stay isolated. Criminals combine them with other leaks to build detailed profiles. An email from Dekoyap can be matched to a gaming username, a child’s school account, or a family member’s social-media handle. Once those links are made, attackers can move from simple fraud to full doxxing—publishing your home address, phone number, and family details online. Credential leaks like this one frequently cascade into account takeovers on gaming platforms, where children’s accounts become entry points for further harassment or extortion.

Thegentlemen’s Publicly Known Track Record

Public reporting attributes the group’s emergence to mid-2024. Thegentlemen has listed dozens of organizations across retail, manufacturing, and professional services. Its typical playbook begins with initial access through phishing or exploited remote-desktop credentials, followed by exfiltration of sensitive files before encryption. The group then demands payment and, if unpaid, publishes samples or full datasets on its leak site to pressure victims. Observers note the operation uses straightforward extortion rather than complex double-extortion tactics seen in larger ransomware families.

What to do

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• Rotate any password you used on dekoyap.net or related supplier portals anywhere else it is reused, and switch on 2FA through an authenticator app instead of SMS.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family coverage that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts that often chain back to the same address or email.
• Let remediation specialists handle takedown requests across data brokers and leak sites for you while you focus on securing your own accounts.

The incident shows that even mid-sized local retailers can become gateways to personal exposure for thousands of ordinary customers. Taking concrete steps now limits how far attackers can travel along the identity chain that begins with this claimed breach. DoxxScan by GalaxyWarden delivers continuous monitoring across more than 13.1 billion+ breach records and over 100 platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping, and hands-on remediation by specialists, with household coverage that includes children’s gaming accounts vulnerable to the same credential-stuffing waves. Start your DoxxScan trial today to close the gaps this leak has opened.