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FLA-Esq

listed as www.fla-esq.com · Claimed by RansomHub · listed 1 year ago

16m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 21, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Feb 21, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FLA-Esq is a Florida-based law firm specializing in estate planning, probate, trust administration, and related tax matters. They provide personalized legal solutions focused on wealth protection and legacy preservation through experienced attorneys offering tailored client services.

Industry
Legal Services – Estate Planning & Probate

Attack summary

Severity: high — Law firm breach involving estate planning and financial records implies exposure of sensitive personal and financial information of clients, including PII and privileged attorney-client materials. Data publication confirmed (disclosed_status: data_published).

RansomHub claims to have compromised FLA-Esq and published data from the breach. The group's post does not explicitly detail what was exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client records
  • Estate planning documents
  • Trust documentation
  • Tax records
  • Financial information

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

FLA-Esq is a law firm that specializes in estate planning, probate, trust administration, and related tax matters. They provide personalized and comprehensive legal solutions in Florida. Their team of experienced attorneys offers innovative and effective strategies to protect their clients' wealth and legacy. With their focus on strong client relationships, they are dedicated to understanding each client's unique needs and providing tailored legal services.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About RansomHub

RansomHub is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in February 2024 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat, compromising over 1,000 victims within its first year of operation. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, though their specific country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain under investigation by security researchers. RansomHub employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victims' systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met, with their attacks primarily targeting organizations in the United States, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and Italy. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors, suggesting they prioritize targets with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase the likelihood of ransom payment. Despite their recent emergence, RansomHub has quickly gained notoriety for their aggressive targeting approach and high victim count, with security agencies including CISA and FBI monitoring their activities as part of ongoing ransomware threat assessments. As of current reporting, RansomHub remains active and continues to recruit affiliates for their RaaS operation while expanding their victim base across multiple industries and geographic regions. The group has been linked to 1,032 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 10, 2024; most recent post March 31, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HUB.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 21, 2025www.fla-esq.com listed by RansomHubon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.fla-esq.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by RansomHub means www.fla-esq.com 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 RansomHub'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.