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Anderson, Creager & Wittstruck, P.C., L.L.O.

listed as acwlaw.com · Claimed by Lockbit3 · listed 1 year ago

18m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 23, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lockbit3
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Dec 23, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Anderson, Creager & Wittstruck, P.C., L.L.O. (ACW Law) is a family law and criminal defense firm based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The firm provides services in divorce, family law, criminal defense, civil litigation, DUI & traffic matters, and appeals, with a team of named attorneys.

Industry
Legal Services – Family Law & Criminal Defense
Address
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only the company's public mission statement with no indication of proof files, data exfiltration, operational disruption, or specifics of what was compromised. No evidence of data publication or breach details provided.

LockBit3 claims to have attacked ACW Law. The leak post provides no details on the nature of the breach (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or what data was targeted.

low

What the group claims

ACW Law is committed to Building the Bridge to Your Future. We are passionate about achieving the best outcomes for our clients. Our mission is to work with you to identify your desired destination, and then work tirelessly to get you there.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 23, 2024acwlaw.com listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit3

lockbit3 has been linked to 2,016 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, acwlaw.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit3 means acwlaw.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 lockbit3'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.