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Datacomm Services

bd_ff5a228817660994 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 29, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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.

Group activity: TechnologyDiscovered: 2026-09-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

dscdatacomm.com zoominfo.com/c/datacomm-services-corp/347799114 Datacomm Services Corporation (DSC) (operating since 1988, Memphis, Tennessee) is a low-voltage systems contractor serving the Memphis/Mid-South region (TN, MS, AR) for nearly 40 years. It designs and installs structured cabling (Cat 5e–Cat 6A and fiber optics), outside-plant networks, access control, CCTV, intrusion alarms and paging/AV systems — acting as a single point of contact for all low-voltage building systems. Led by President Allen Hendry and EVP/CEO Chuck Jennings, it runs a lean ~22-person team with two certified RCDD designers on staff and revenue around $10 million/year. Clients range from small service tickets to $1M+ projects — offices, industrial sites and especially school systems and government buyers (it holds TIPS purchasing contracts through 2028). It carries an A+ BBB rating and clean legal record, with strong reviews for workmanship and service. Main limits: purely regional footprint and dependence

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 29, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

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.

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