Was Disney Family hit by ransomware?

Disney Family was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Disney Family breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Disney Family. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Shamrock Holdings, Inc.

listed as Disney Family · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Shamrock Holdings, Inc. is a private investment firm and family office founded by Roy E. Disney in 1978 to manage wealth for members of the Disney family. The company invests with a focus on integrity and responsibility, and through a subsidiary also manages real estate investment programs.

Industry: Private Investment & Family Office Management
Address: 3500 W. Olive Ave. Suite 700, Burbank, CA 91505
Founded: 1978

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 800+ GB spanning decades, including highly sensitive regulated PII (passports, KYC documents), detailed family trust instruments naming specific individuals, financial records, and operational credentials. Scale and sensitivity of personal data on high-net-worth individuals and their families, combined with published status, constitutes critical exposure.

The threat actor claims to have exfiltrated over 800 GB of data spanning from the 1980s to June 2026, including family trusts, tax records, private equity fund details, personal financial records, passports, KYC documents, payroll records, and bank reconciliations. The group states data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Family trust documents
Tax administration records
Private equity fund management data
Personal financial records
Passports
KYC documents
Payroll records
Bank reconciliations
Subscription agreements
ERP credentials

What the group claims

This critical data breach involves Disney Family / Shamrock Holdings, the private investment firm and family office established by Roy E. Disney to manage the wealth of the Disney family branch, rather than the public Walt Disney Company. The compromised dataset, totaling over 800 GB and spanning from the 1980s to June 2026, exposes highly sensitive information across 14 critical categories, including family trusts, tax administration, and private equity fund management. Key victims include prominent figures such as Abigail Disney, Roy P. Disney, and Stanley Gold, whose personal financial records, passports, and KYC documents were leaked alongside detailed trust instruments for the "Disney Grandchildren Trusts." The breach reveals active operational data, including recent payroll records, bank reconciliations with CNB, and subscription agreements for funds like the Shamrock Israel Growth Fund. With unencrypted databases, embedded ERP credentials etc..

Sources

Victim siteshamrock.com

Source

Indexed 6 days 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 655 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 23, 2026Disney Family listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 655 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,192 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Disney Family is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Disney Family 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.