Ransomware claim: Esri South Africa (thegentlemen)

esri-southafrica.com sri South Africa is the exclusive distributor of Esri’s ArcGIS geospatial platform in southern Africa, founded in 1989 in Midrand with 206 employees across 5 offices and over 2,000 clients. Led by Managing Director Patrick McKivergan, it serves government, utilities, mining and banking sectors with major projects like the City of Cape Town CityMap Viewer and ESKOM asset management. Its Esri South Africa College offers an NQF Level 6 Diploma in GISc&T and is the only Esri accredited learning center in the region. The company holds B-BBEE Level 1 status and runs free GIS training for unemployed youth. It participates in the Map Africa Initiative with Microsoft and Space42 to map all 54 African countries. Revenue is estimated at 23.2 million dollars with government contracts including a R34 million deal with DFFE.

  • Group: thegentlemen
  • Country: ZA
  • Sector: Technology
  • Victim website: esri-southafrica.com
  • Discovered: 2026-11-12 09:57 UTC
  • Attack date: 2026-11-11 12:34 UTC

This entry reflects a claim published by an extortion group and collected by a public tracker. It has not been independently verified.

Source: ransomware.live — Recent Victims · 2026-11-12