Westrop Primary & Nursery School
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Full breach record for Westrop Primary & Nursery School →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
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westropprimaryschool.co.uk Westrop Primary & Nursery School is a state-funded community school in Highworth, Swindon (Wiltshire, UK), founded in 1969, serving children aged 2–11. It currently has ~380 enrolled students (capacity 495), with 18.6% on free school meals and 16.3% on SEN support. The school employs ~47 staff (15 teachers + 32 teaching assistants, 20:1 student-teacher ratio) under Headteacher Cindy Acres (since 2018). Annual income is approximately £2 million (~£5,461 per pupil), with a healthy £75K surplus and ~£100K reserves. Rated "Good" by Ofsted (October 2022, maintained since 2012), though 2024/25 exam results showed weaker math progress and 0% at higher standards compared to strong 2018/19 performance. It runs 11 primary classes plus a three-room nursery and is known for its Forest School program and strong pupil premium support.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 2, 2026
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
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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.