Potomac Animal Hospital
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Full breach record for Potomac Animal Hospital →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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potomacanimalhospital.com zoominfo.com/c/potomac-animal-hospital/183255483 Potomac Animal Hospital is a family-owned, full-service small animal medical and surgical facility at 10020 River Road in Potomac, Maryland, an affluent Washington, DC suburb, founded in 1973 and led since 1983 by Air Force veteran Dr. Michael Scott (CSU DVM 1969; former officer in charge of the Europe Military Working Dog Referral Center in Ramstein). His son Dr. Jason Scott joined in 1999 — hooded at graduation by his father exactly 30 years to the day after his own — and now leads a team including Dr. Sarah Orloff (2021) and Dr. Kimber Wagner (2025); Dr. Michael retired in 2018 but remains owner. Beyond medicine (wellness exams, international health certificates, laser surgery, dentistry with digital oral radiography, in-house lab), the hospital runs a separate boarding kennel ($42.50–$72.50/night, dogs exercised every 2–3 hours, VIP suites) and a grooming salon — all powered through outages by an industria
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 6, 2026
Claim posted
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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.
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.