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Pajulahti

bd_a35b94cd7b338417 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 21, 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2026-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

pajulahti.com zoominfo.com/c/pajulahti/369113600 Pajulahti Sports Institute is one of Finland's oldest and largest sports institutes, founded in 1929 and located on 110 hectares by Lake Iso-Kukkanen in Nastola (Lahti), about an hour from Helsinki. It is Finland's only official Olympic and Paralympic Training Center, known for its focus on endurance sports and paralympic athletics. Since January 2025, Pajulahti has been merged with Kisakallio and the Helsinki-based Urhea campus into Kolmen kampuksen urheiluopisto — the largest sports institute in Finland, with 3 campuses, ~200 employees, 73,000 m2 of sports facilities, 320,000 visitors per year, and ~500 students in professional sports education. The merged group generates about €26 million in annual revenue, operates on a non-profit basis (owned by foundations)

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 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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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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