YMCA of Columbia
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Full breach record for YMCA of Columbia →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
columbiaymca.org zoominfo.com/c/ymca-of-columbia/8912958 Founded in 1854, the YMCA of Columbia is a cornerstone charitable organization dedicated to building healthy spirit, mind, and body for all across South Carolina's Midlands. Through five community branches, they deliver impactful youth development, wellness programs, and social responsibility initiatives rooted in Christian values of caring, respect, and inclusion. Every day, the Y empowers neighbors of all ages and backgrounds to learn, grow, and thrive together
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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May 21, 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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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.
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.