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Sladek Partners

bd_a3db2eeb01222c13 · 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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-10-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

ak-sladek_cz Sladek & Partners Prague law firm operating as Mgr. Ivana Sládková, advokát (IČO 66252946), with 24 years of practice since 2002 — specializing in real estate transactions, divorce/family law, and attorney escrow (advokátní úschova). The firm's flagship claim: 500M CZK ($23M) held in escrow annually across 100+ segregated accounts, backed by 500M CZK insurance and 2–5 day payout guarantees. Led by Ivana Sládková (ČAK ev. č. 09496, Charles University, licensed for escrow since 2002, speaks English/German/Russian), with a tiny 3–5 person team (accountant + secretary). Listed in EPRAVO.CZ's notable law firm yearbooks (2013, 2016); pricing is quote-only (hourly/fixed/contingency), no published rates.

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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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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