First Dental
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Full breach record for First Dental →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
myfirstdental.com First Dental Care is a dental practice network in Massachusetts founded by Dr. Farshad Ghobbeh, who opened his first clinic in Medford in 2008 and expanded to Somerville in 2012 and four more locations including Arlington, Watertown, Acton and Bedford. With over 20,000 patients and 18 years of experience, it offers general and cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, Invisalign, emergency care and smile makeovers across six clinics. Its Smile Now Pay Later model with Klarna makes implants available from 58 dollars per month and whitening at 149 dollars instead of 500. The team is multilingual speaking English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Persian to serve diverse Massachusetts communities. It accepts over 15 insurance plans including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Delta Dental and MassHealth. Key strengths are 18 years of community trust, multi-location accessibility, affordable payment plans and Dr. Ghobbeh's personal commitment to quality oral health.
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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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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.
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.