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Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C.

Claimed by Aurora · listed 10 days ago

10d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 31, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Aurora
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. is a boutique law firm founded in 1987 in Birmingham, Michigan, specializing in corporate transactions, commercial litigation, estate planning, healthcare law, and white-collar criminal defense. The firm serves high-net-worth individuals and closely held entities across Michigan.

Industry
Legal Services – Corporate, Litigation & Estate Planning
Address
251 E. Merrill St., Suite 212, Birmingham, Michigan 48009
Founded
1987

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Massive exfiltration of attorney-client privileged communications, regulated PHI from multiple hospital systems, bulk PII (SSNs at scale), tax records, and materials related to a major public company CEO. Exposure of sealed litigation strategy and settlement details creates severe legal and competitive harm. Multiple regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, attorney-client privilege, tax privacy) implicated.

The Aurora group claims to have exfiltrated the firm's complete attorney-client privileged correspondence, client case files, settlement agreements, and litigation strategy documents. Additionally exposed are full Social Security Numbers for 25+ individuals, Protected Health Information from multiple hospitals, 100+ client tax returns spanning 2003–2024, 11 years of unfiltered email archives, and personal legal matters of Mat Ishbia (CEO of NYSE-listed UWM Holdings Corp., the largest wholesale mortgage lender in the US).

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • 360+ client/matter folders with attorney-client privileged communications
  • Litigation strategy memos and case assessments
  • Settlement agreements and deposition notes
  • Full Social Security Numbers (25+ individuals)
  • Scanned Social Security cards
  • Protected Health Information from Oakwood Hospital, University of Michigan Hospital, William Beaumont Hospital
  • 55+ employee files from sexual health clinic client
  • 100+ client tax returns (2003–2024) with SSNs and EINs
  • 11 email archive files (PST/OST)

What the group claims

[law] Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. — a boutique law firm in Birmingham, Michigan, founded in 1999 by Jeffrey A. Ishbia and Michael A. Gagleard. The firm practises real estate, corporate, estate planning, personal injury, medical malpractice, and commercial litigation for high-net-worth individuals and closely held entities. The exposed material includes: 360+ client/matter folders — the complete attorney-client privilege corpus: litigation strategy memos, settlement agreements, case assessments, deposition notes, correspondence with opposing counsel. <redacted> <redacted> Full Social Security Numbers for 25+ identified individuals — trust beneficiaries, family members, employees of client businesses, and a scanned Social Security card. Protected Health Information — hospital admission records from Oakwood Hospital, University of Michigan Hospital, and William Beaumont Hospital. Also: 55+ employee files from a sexual health clinic client with SSN searches and scanned SS cards. 100+ client tax returns spanning 2003–2024, each containing SSNs, EINs, and income data. 11 email archive files (PST/OST) containing years of unfiltered attorney correspondence. Personal legal matters of Mat Ishbia — CEO of publicly-traded UWM Holdings Corp. (NYSE: UWMC), the largest wholesale mortgage lender in the United States.

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 days ago

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Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 39 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post September 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 31, 2026Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. listed by aurora on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 39 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full aurora dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. 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 aurora'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.