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Matthews Law

Claimed by Medusa · listed 1 year ago

10 employees
Records
14m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 27, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Medusa
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Apr 27, 2025
Records
10 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Matthews Law is a law firm based in Auckland, New Zealand, with 10 employees. The firm provides legal services and operates as a conflict resolution specialist.

Industry
Legal Services & Conflict Resolution
Address
48 Shortland Street, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Employees
10

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by the group with disclosure; law firm likely holds sensitive client and legal information, though no specific proof count or data inventory details are visible in the leak post.

Medusa claims to have attacked Matthews Law and published data from the victim. The group has disclosed the breach, indicating exfiltration of company data.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Legal documents
  • Client information
  • Firm communications

What the group claims

Matthews Law - a law firm that also provides services as a conflict resolution specialist. Matthews Law corporate office is located in 48 Shortland Street, Auckland 1010, New Zealand and has 10 employees.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 27, 2025Matthews Law listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site
Records
10 employees

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Matthews Law is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means Matthews Law 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 Medusa'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.