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Jacklyn Dawson Solicitors

Claimed by Donutleaks · listed 3 years ago

400 GB
Data size
36m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 9, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Donutleaks
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Legal
Listed on leak site
Jul 9, 2023
Data size
400 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jacklyn Dawson Solicitors is a UK-based law firm providing legal services to both businesses and individuals. The firm operates as a solicitors practice, handling matters for private and commercial clients. No further details on size, location, or founding date are publicly available from the provided sources.

Industry
Legal Services (Solicitors)

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 400 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data from a legal firm includes regulated PII (client personal details, addresses) and financial records at scale; solicitors hold legally privileged and sensitive client data, and the data has been published, constituting a critical disclosure under GDPR and SRA obligations.

Donutleaks claims to have exfiltrated over 400 GB of sensitive data from the firm's file servers, including financial records and client personal data; the post indicates data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Financial data (budgets, bank accounts, taxes)
  • Client personal details
  • Client addresses

What the group claims

Jacklyn Dawson Solicitors is a UK based solicitors and lawyers company which is providing legal services for business and individuals. This network has been hacked and over 400GB of sensitive data were stolen from company's file servers, including: financial data (budgets, bank accounts, taxes, etc)client's data (personal details, address,…

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Donutleaks

Donutleaks is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a pattern of targeting critical infrastructure and business sectors across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reports, with limited information available from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Based on the limited public documentation available, the group has demonstrated a preference for attacking healthcare, technology, manufacturing, business services, and telecommunications sectors, with their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities not extensively detailed in current threat intelligence reporting. Donutleaks has been associated with approximately 42 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Italy, Iran, and Spain, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom demands have not been widely reported by major cybersecurity organizations or law enforcement agencies. The current operational status of Donutleaks remains unclear due to limited public threat intelligence coverage of this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 42 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 24, 2022; most recent post July 24, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 9, 2023Jacklyn Dawson Solicitors listed by Donutleakson the group's public leak site
Data size
400 GB

Other recent disclosures by Donutleaks

Donutleaks has been linked to 42 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 Legal sector, which has 241 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Jacklyn Dawson Solicitors is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Donutleaks means Jacklyn Dawson Solicitors 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Donutleaks'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.