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METRO & METRO

bd_310b4b1a7b2bc337 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 7, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for METRO & METRO

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: Retail & E-CommerceDiscovered: 2026-09-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

metro.net zoominfo.com/c/metro/351518795 LA Metro is the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) — the second-busiest transit system in the US, serving 9.6M residents across 1,433 sq miles (nearly a third of California's population), founded in 1993 by merging SCRTD and LACTC. Its network: 125+ miles of rail (2 subway + 4 light-rail lines, 110 stations), 117 bus lines, 2 BRT corridors, 2,000+ low-emission buses and the Metro Micro on-demand service — moving ~925,000 weekday boardings and 305.7M riders in 2025 (9 straight months of growth, +9% YoY, 87% satisfaction). It's run by a 13-member board (5 county supervisors + the LA mayor's bloc, chaired politically by Mayor Karen Bass) and led by CEO Stephanie Wiggins — the first woman and first African American to head the agency — with a $9.7B FY2026-27 budget and a $26B capital program, the largest rail construction program in the US.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 2026

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 2023-02-28

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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