Was Bogdan & Frasco, LLP hit by ransomware?

Bogdan & Frasco, LLP was listed by the Cicada3301 ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Cicada3301 ransomware group?

Cicada3301 is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Bogdan & Frasco, LLP breach?

Cicada3301 published data attributed to Bogdan & Frasco, LLP. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Bogdan & Frasco, LLP

Claimed by Cicada3301 · listed 2 years ago

22m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 31, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cicada3301
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Aug 31, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bogdan & Frasco, LLP is a tax and accounting firm based in San Francisco's financial district, serving small and medium-sized business clients and individual clients. The firm emphasizes service quality, expertise, and client responsiveness.

Industry: Accounting & Tax Services
Address: San Francisco financial district, above Montgomery Street BART station, San Francisco, CA, United States

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Tax and accounting firm with likely access to sensitive financial and personal client data; disclosed status indicates data publication, but no proof count or detailed data inventory provided in post excerpt; no ransom demand stated.

Cicada3301 claims to have compromised Bogdan & Frasco, LLP. The specific scope of data exfiltration or encryption is not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

client financial records
tax documentation
business accounting data
personal client information

What the group claims

Welcome and thank you for visiting Bogdan & Frasco, LLP. We offer a wide range of tax and accounting services focusing on small and medium-sized business clients and individual clients. We pride ourselves on our reputation for high level of service, keen expertise and being responsive to our clients' inquiries and suggestions. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may have. Our office is conveniently located in the heart of San Francisco's financial district, directly above the Montgomery Street BART station. Bogdan & Frasco, LLP

Sources

Victim sitebfcpas.com
Leak posthttp://cicadabv7vicyvgz5khl7v2x5yygcgow7ryy6yppwmxii4eoobdaztqd.onion/2tu8mj3lvbtdhn7t1zu1m4wx2u12ja7a

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Cicada3301

Cicada3301 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in June 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available regarding their operational structure or potential connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Based on observed targeting patterns, Cicada3301 has demonstrated a preference for attacking business services, technology, manufacturing, and financial sector organizations, with their operations concentrated primarily in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as extending to Spain and Singapore. The group has successfully compromised approximately 75 known victims since their emergence, though specific details regarding their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Given the limited public documentation available from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, the group's current operational status, technical capabilities, and specific attack infrastructure remain largely uncharacterized in open-source intelligence reporting. As of the most recent observations, Cicada3301 appears to remain active in conducting ransomware operations, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits more detailed public reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 75 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 20, 2024; most recent post September 4, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 31, 2024Bogdan & Frasco, LLP listed by Cicada3301on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Cicada3301

Cicada3301 has been linked to 75 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Bogdan & Frasco, LLP is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cicada3301 means Bogdan & Frasco, LLP 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 Cicada3301'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.