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Marlborough Partners

bd_09da8a0e44b14104 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 25, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Marlborough Partners5 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Coinbasecartel 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2026-04-25

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Marlborough Partners is a UK-based independent corporate finance advisory firm specialising in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and strategic advisory services. The firm primarily works with mid-market companies, providing guidance on buyouts, disposals, fundraising, and growth strategies. It operates within the financial services and investment banking sector, serving clients across Europe and beyond.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 25, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-05-26

coinbasecartel

According to ransomware.live, CoinbaseCartel specializes in data acquisition through system access and strategic partnerships. It focus exclusively on data exfiltration—our operations never involve system encryption or operational disruption.

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