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Universidade de Passo Fundo

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 14, 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: EducationDiscovered: 2026-10-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

upf.br Universidade de Passo Fundo private community philanthropic university in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil — founded 1968 (Decree 62.835), run by the FUPF foundation, with 7 campuses, ~10,000 students, 486 professors (48% PhD), and 100,000+ alumni. It holds the maximum MEC institutional rating (5), ranks 6th among Brazil's best private universities and 5th in research nationally (RUF 2025), and is in the THE World 2026 ranking and top-300 globally for sustainability (GreenMetric). Flagships: Medicine (MEC concept 5, expanding from 750 to 2,000 students with R$ 60M invested), Pharmacy (MEC 5), Veterinary (Hospital Veterinário + 170-ha Cepagro), Engineering (chemical #5 nationally), and Law (70 years old). Financially healthy — R$ 60M annual surplus, independent audits published, board with civil-society oversight; ~70% of students get aid (ProUni, Bolsa Filantropia, FIES, CrediUPF). New rector for 2026–2030: Edison Alencar Casagranda (93% of votes, took office July 2026).

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 14, 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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