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GLOBALMalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareThegentlemenRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

SK Capital Partners, LP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 28, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for SK Capital Partners, LP →2 incidents on file

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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2026-10-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

skcapitalpartners.com Revenue $63 Million SK Capital Partners is a New York-based private equity firm founded in 2007 as a spinoff from Apax Partners, managing approximately 10 billion dollars across 60 plus investments in specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and ingredients. Led by co-founder Barry Siadat, it targets control investments in companies with 100 million to 1 billion dollars in revenue and has built platforms like Advansix, Sartomer and Cura Particles through buy-and-build strategies. Its portfolio companies employ over 12,000 people and generate more than 5 billion dollars in annual revenue. Recent deals include the July 2026 acquisition of Lorama Group and the October 2026 purchase of Vesuvius Americas refractory assets. Key strengths are deep sector expertise in real-economy industrial businesses and proven IPO and trade sale exits.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 28, 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.

Source ceiling

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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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