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Santa Barbara Endodontics

bd_932cc6ccc9981d51 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 14, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2026-10-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

sbendo.com Santa Barbara Endodontics solo specialty practice of Dr. Terrell F. Pannkuk, DDS, MScD — one of the most credentialed endodontists in the US — at 9 E Pedregosa St, Santa Barbara, CA, operating since 1987 (39 years). Pannkuk is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics (since 1988), volunteer clinical professor at UCSF, peer reviewer for the Journal of Endodontics, founding president of the Schilder Institute, founder of Pure Dental Learning, and author of a chapter in Ingle's Endodontics (7th ed.) — peers call him "the endodontist's endodontist." Services: root canals, retreatment, apicoectomy, implants, CBCT 3D diagnostics (Carestream 9600), microscope-assisted microsurgery, same-day emergency care. Team of 5 staff.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 14, 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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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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