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SHAHEEN LAW GROUP PLC - Richmond, Virginia, USA

Claimed by Deadlock · listed 1 hour ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 24, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Deadlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 24, 2026

What the group claims

Family law firm, established 1995 by Victor A. Shaheen (†2025 - the General Assembly of Virginia honored him with a resolution; google it, it is touching). Now run by his three sons. 48 employees across four offices: Richmond, Midlothian, Virginia Beach, Newport News. What do they do? They close 150+ real estate transactions EVERY MONTH for some of the largest corporate relocation programs in America. When a Fortune-500 moves an employee to Virginia, this firm holds that employee's Social Security Number, bank wiring details, home address, family identities, and sometimes their medical clearance. They hold everyone's future in a shared folder. We now hold the folder. WHAT WE TOOK 36,788 files · 27GB · 21,789 fully read 67,000+ SSN patterns (their own dedup says 6,017 real people — we will let their customers decide which number to believe) EVIDENCE — SERIES PREVIEW (from their actual files) - S1 DEEDS WITH SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS File: "5053815 - Unsigned Deed.docx" (verbatim from their server): "***-**-XXXX B•••• H••• Social Security Number ***-**-XXXX J••••• H••• Social Security Number 10356 Ashburn Road, North Chesterfield, VA 23235" File: "Kelley 5042085 - DEED.docx": "PURCHASER(S): N••••• S••• SELLER'S NAME: S••• E. K•••• SS#: ***-**-XXXX ...including the withholding of twenty percent (20%) of the sales proceeds." ← FIRPTA: foreign sellers. IRS will want this list. We have it. Thousands of these. Every deed folder = a name, a number, an address, a transaction. Their client roster IS the leak. - S3 INSIDE THEIR BANKING & THEIR NETWORK File: "shared_Accounting/Banking/Other Banking/Shaheen DDA Statements SunTrust DDA" (email from SunTrustOnlineCourier to their own staff — headers verbatim): Received: from barracuda.shaheenlaw.com ([10.0.0.6]) by ricdcex1.shaheenlaw.com ... X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1291233029-... for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 Why we publish an email HEADER: their internal map is in it. Barracuda at 10.0.0.6. Exchange "ricdcex1". Domain SHAHEENWORLD. We did not forget how to enter. Neither will the next group, when we sell the map. 150 banking statement attachments ride along in this folder. - S5 THE CLIENT LIST, WRITTEN IN FOLDERNAMES They named folders after their customers. Verbatim paths: shared_PENDING_SALE/HENNY/Closed Files/ Wisniewski-Markel, Suzanne_5027384_12263 Eagle ... Merza, Jamal & Adrienne_5027826_811 Woodberry ... Name, file number, STREET ADDRESS — in the path itself. Marketing lists sell for money. This one is annotated with purchase history. Relocation buyers are premium leads. - S2 MEDICAL - S4 LITIGATION Held. 120 medical files exist (their own audit counted them). Litigation: we confirm their December escrow dispute is public (Porchlight Homes v. Almeida & Shaheen, Henrico — google it, BizSense covered it). Virginia residents: §18.2-186.6. Illinois relocations: BIPA. Opposing counsel and journalists: samples on request. Media & researchers: samples on request, we answer fast We keep our word to everyone who pays. We keep it also to everyone who does not.

Sources

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Disclosure context

About Deadlock

Deadlock is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 10 known victims across a geographically diverse target set. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. Based on available victimology data, the group has demonstrated a targeting pattern spanning Singapore, China, Sweden, Spain, and Nigeria, suggesting an opportunistic or globally distributed operational scope rather than a regionally focused campaign. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, business services, telecommunications, and financial services, indicating a preference for industries with high operational dependencies and potential for significant disruption, which is consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking maximum leverage for ransom payment. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or specific tooling has been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of this profile's preparation. Due to the group's nascent operational timeline and the limited volume of publicly verified intelligence, analysts should treat this profile as preliminary and subject to significant revision as additional technical indicators, victim disclosures, and research reporting become available. Continued monitoring is advised given the cross-sector and cross-regional targeting behavior observed in this early operational phase. The group has been linked to 114 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 15, 2026; most recent post August 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 24, 2026SHAHEEN LAW GROUP PLC - Richmond, Virginia, USA listed by Deadlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Deadlock

Deadlock has been linked to 114 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 Professional Services sector, which has 14 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SHAHEEN LAW GROUP PLC - Richmond, Virginia, USA is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Deadlock means SHAHEEN LAW GROUP PLC - Richmond, Virginia, USA 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 Deadlock'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.