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Zehren and Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 26, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Zehren and Associates →

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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-10-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

zehren.com Zehren and Associates Zehren & Associates is an architecture and design firm founded in 1983 in Avon, Colorado, specializing in resort and mountain architecture with a second office in Santa Barbara, California. Led by founder Jack Zehren, a West Point graduate, the firm has about 37 employees and revenue of roughly 5 million dollars. It offers a full package of architecture, master planning, interior design and landscape architecture, known for projects like The 10th restaurant on Vail Mountain and The Blake hotel at Taos Ski Valley, voted the best ski hotel in North America. The firm designed the Beaver Creek master plan, winner of the Snow Country Best Resort award, and has worked in over 9 countries including Argentina, Korea and Mexico. Key strengths are 43 years of niche expertise and long-term partnerships with Vail Resorts and East West Partners.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 26, 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.

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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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