Williamson Dacar Associates
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Full breach record for Williamson Dacar Associates →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
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williamsondacar.com zoominfo.com/c/williamson-dacar-associates-inc/131629505 Williamson Dacar Associates, Inc. (founded 1994, Clearwater, Florida; now branded Williamson Design Associates / WDA Studio, wdastudio.com) is an award-winning small-business architecture, engineering and interior-design firm specializing in Florida's K-12 schools, colleges, libraries, government buildings and houses of worship. Led by founder and President Ted Williamson, AIA, PE with ~31 staff and offices in Clearwater and Boca Raton, the firm has completed 300+ educational projects over 30+ years — including a $796K jail secure-entry-center contract for Pinellas County, major campus renovations for Pinellas/Palm Beach/Volusia school districts, and new facilities for St. Petersburg College, Palm Beach State College and New College of Florida. Its South Florida co-director Thomas Donaudy (ex-Florida Atlantic University architect, 200+ school projects) retired in January 2026, marking a leadership transition
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Sep 29, 2026
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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.
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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.