Downrite Engineering
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Full breach record for Downrite Engineering →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
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downrite.com zoominfo.com/c/downrite-engineering-corp/354082568 Downrite Engineering 1983-founded, family-owned Florida specialty contractor (Flaxman family, now led by 2nd-generation Brandon Flaxman, ~200 employees, ~$40–50M revenue est., HQ Coconut Creek) covering the full "site infrastructure" stack: underground utilities (water/sewer/storm), unlimited-license electrical, traffic signals/ITS, fiber optics — and its signature niche, sports lighting, where it's the default design-build contractor for municipal athletic complexes, schools and parks across South Florida. Moats: vertical integration (one contract, one PM for fields + parking + signals + fiber), a 100+ vehicle fleet (40+ digger derricks, 20+ bucket trucks), hurricane-restoration demand, FDOT prequalification and 40-year municipal relationships; new ~9–10k sq ft HQ opened 2023. Bottom line: a quiet Florida infrastructure dynasty — digging, wiring and lighting the state since 1983, profiting every storm season.
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Sep 14, 2026
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.