Gator Cases Incorporated
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Full breach record for Gator Cases Incorporated →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
gatorcases.com zoominfo.com/c/gator-cases/20824928 Gator Cases is a leading American manufacturer of protective cases, bags, stands, and accessories for musicians and audio/visual professionals, founded in 2000 by father-daughter team Jerry Freed and Crystal Morris in Tampa, Florida. Starting with a small lineup of molded plastic guitar cases at the Summer NAMM show, the company has grown to offer over 1,000 product solutions across categories including pro audio, IT, DJ, percussion, band instruments, and AV equipment. With an annual revenue of approximately 27 million and ~96 employees, Gator operates a major 180,000 sq. ft. manufacturing and distribution facility in Columbia City, Indiana, and backs all products with a Limited Lifetime Warranty
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
May 6, 2026
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
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
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- New Hampshire State AGbd_8d7ba4044f8258892026-05-29 · +23dVerified
- Massachusetts State AGbd_907d221a6ad9fb142026-05-29 · +23dVerified by operator
- Nebraska State AGbd_e1edb437786a03272026-05-29 · +23dVerified by operator
- Indiana State AGbd_f5aeb9b911dcc2bf2026-05-29 · +23dVerified
Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing May 6, last May 29 (IN) — a 23-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
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.
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.
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.