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Ansonia Public Schools

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 9, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ansonia Public Schools is a public school district in Ansonia, Connecticut, serving approximately 2,332–2,404 students across 4 schools (Ansonia High School, Ansonia Middle School, Mead Elementary, Prendergast Elementary, and Pre-K). The district operates with an annual budget of $39.5M (2026–27) and employs 166 teachers.

Industry
Public K–12 Education
Address
Ansonia, Connecticut, USA
Employees
166

Attack summary

Severity: high — K–12 school district with ~2,400 students and 166 staff members. Potential compromise of student records and PII (names, contact information, SSNs, medical/health data) at scale, combined with financial and operational documents. Disclosure status is 'data_published,' indicating confirmed exfiltration. Absence of operational disruption claims and lack of explicit proof inventory prevent 'critical' classification, but confirmed data publication in an educational setting with minors present justif

The group claims to have accessed Ansonia Public Schools' systems and published or threatened to publish data. The leak post does not specify encryption, exfiltration, or data types compromised; it appears to be an announcement or listing without explicit ransom demand or operational impact claims.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Student records
  • Staff directory
  • Budget and financial documents
  • School system infrastructure

What the group claims

ansonia.org zoominfo.com/c/ansonia-public-schools/6671532 Ansonia Public Schools is a public PK–12 school district in Ansonia, Connecticut (Naugatuck Valley), serving ~2,332–2,404 students across 4 schools with 166 teachers (14.5:1 ratio, avg salary $99K) under Superintendent Dr. Joseph DiBacco. Annual BOE budget is $39.5M (2026-27), spending $19,869 per pupil ($2,185 below CT state average), funded 54% by state aid, 34% local property taxes, and 13% federal. The district faces severe academic challenges: math proficiency at just 12–15% (state: 41%) and reading at 24–25% (state: 51%), ranking it in the bottom 50% of Connecticut districts (1/10 rating). Demographics are high-need — 80% minority enrollment, 63.6% on free/reduced meals, and 23.1% chronic absenteeism. Graduation rate is 85.7% (state: 88.9%), with strong positives in college-prep course-taking (95.7%) and on-track graduation (92.5%). Financially fragile: the city has been a "distressed municipality" since 2010, fund balance

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 960 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 9, 2026Ansonia Public Schools listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,089 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ansonia Public Schools is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Ansonia Public Schools appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on thegentlemen's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.