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Ontario Physiotherapy Association

bd_d4158fd9441e0c2f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 3, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Ontario Physiotherapy Association

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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2026-05-06

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

opa.on.ca zoominfo.com/c/ontario-physiotherapy-association/130548231 The Ontario Physiotherapy Association (OPA) is a non-profit, physiotherapist-led professional association representing over 5,500 physiotherapists, physiotherapist assistants (PTAs), and students across Ontario, Canada. Its core mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, professional development, and career support to ensure accessible, high-quality physiotherapy services throughout the province. Founded over 60 years ago, OPA has a well-documented history of advocacy wins — from expanding PT scopes of practice to supporting virtual care access and removing referral requirements from physicians

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 3, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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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  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
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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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