Pollo Cibao Listed by thegentlemen Ransomware Group

On February 17, 2026, the ransomware group known as thegentlemen added Pollo Cibao to its leak site, confirming that internal files from the Dominican poultry producer had been exfiltrated.

Confirmed Details of the Incident

Public reporting indicates the company’s data appeared on the group’s onion site hosted at tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion. Pollo Cibao operates poultry production, incubation, raising, processing, and animal-feed manufacturing facilities in the Dominican Republic. The company employs more than 1,800 people directly and supports around 10,000 indirect workers. Available reporting describes the exposed material as internal files; the exact volume and specific records have not been publicly detailed. No customer database or consumer personal information has been explicitly confirmed in the initial listing.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a company like Pollo Cibao suffers a ransomware breach, the information stolen often includes employee records, supplier contracts, financial documents, and correspondence that can contain names, addresses, phone numbers, and email accounts. If you or anyone in your family works there, banks with them, or supplies them, your details may now sit in an attacker’s archive. Even if you are not directly connected, these leaks frequently spread through data marketplaces and end up on multiple platforms within weeks. Once your information reaches those marketplaces, it can be purchased and used for identity theft, loan fraud, or targeted scams against you or your children.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risks

Ransomware leaks rarely stop at one company. A single email or phone number taken from Pollo Cibao’s files can be cross-referenced with gaming accounts, social-media handles, and family photos posted by employees or their children. This creates an identity chain that links workplace data to personal life. Attackers then use the combined information for doxxing, SIM-swapping, or extortion. Credential leaks of this kind regularly cascade into account takeovers on Steam, Roblox, or other platforms where children play. What begins as a corporate ransomware incident can quickly become a household privacy crisis.

Thegentlemen’s Publicly Known Track Record

Public reporting attributes thegentlemen with emerging in late 2024. The group has listed manufacturing, logistics, and regional companies across Latin America and Europe. Their typical playbook involves initial access through phishing or exploited remote-desktop services, followed by exfiltration of internal documents, and then dual extortion: demanding payment to prevent publication and offering a second fee for a “security report.” They publish samples on their leak site when victims do not meet deadlines, a pattern consistent with the February 17, 2026 Pollo Cibao listing.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your handles, emails, phone numbers, and real identity so you can see exactly what thegentlemen now hold.
• Rotate any password used at Pollo Cibao or related vendors anywhere it is reused, and switch on 2FA through an authenticator app rather than SMS.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 15.4B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next exposure is caught in hours, not months.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family protection that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts that often chain back to the same address or parent email.
• Let remediation specialists handle takedown requests across data brokers and leak forums for you while you focus on securing your own accounts.

The incident shows how quickly corporate ransomware spills into personal lives. Taking concrete steps now limits how far attackers can travel down the identity chain that begins with this breach. DoxxScan by GalaxyWarden delivers continuous monitoring across 15.4 billion breach records and more than 100 platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping, hands-on remediation by specialists, and full household coverage that includes children’s gaming accounts. Starting that process today gives you and your family a practical defense against the next wave of exposure.