Petroleum Telcom Communications
thegentlemen listed this organization on its leak site on Oct 16, 2026.
- Listing date
- Oct 16, 2026
- Attack date
- Oct 14, 2026
Listing text
ptelcom.com Petroleum Telcom, Inc. (dba Telcom, Inc. / Telcom Communications) Southern California communications integrator founded in 1978 in Oxnard, CA — specializing in two-way radio for police/fire, microwave links, fiber optics, cell towers, and FCC licensing. Owned and led by Frank R. Hines (president since 1986), now a lean ~6-person shop (peak 35 in 1999), dealer for Motorola, Kenwood, and Bendix-King, with ~200 owned repeaters across CA/NV/AZ/UT. CA contractor license #620689 (B + C7) active since 1991, zero complaints, bonded and insured. Government track record is real and documented: Ventura County since 1982, Stanislaus County $1.2M, Port of LA police radio system $1.19M (2017–19), City of Oxnard up to $900K (2023–27), USGS, and 5 DoD contracts. Revenue not disclosed (est. $1–5M).
About the group
thegentlemen posted its first listing on Sep 9, 2025 and has listed 1,253 organizations to date.
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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