Northwestern Polytechnic
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Full breach record for Northwestern Polytechnic →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
nwpolytech.ca zoominfo.com/c/northwestern-polytechnic/1310919676 Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP) is a publicly funded polytechnic institution founded in 1966 in Grande Prairie, Alberta, serving 3,800+ students (2,227 full-load equivalents) with ~372–438 employees under President & CEO Dr. Vanessa Sheane (since 2023). Its annual budget is ~$79.5M CAD (2026-27), funded 62.5% by government grants and 21.9% by student tuition, with total net assets of $49.8M (CRA data). NWP operates across 4 schools (Applied Science & Technology, Business & Education, Health, Skilled Trades) offering apprenticeships, diplomas, and a new Bachelor of Education degree, plus unique research assets like the National Bee Diagnostic Centre — Canada's only bee diagnostics lab (NSERC Technology Access Centre) — and a 40,000 sq ft Health Education Centre inside the Grande Prairie hospital. The campus features iconic Douglas J. Cardinal architecture (winner of the Prix du XXe Siècle)
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 6, 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.
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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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.