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Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C.

Claimed by AUR0RA · listed 43 minutes ago

5.7 GB
Data size
360+ client/matter folders, 25+ SSNs, 55+ employee files, 100+ tax returns, 11 email archive files records
Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 30, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AUR0RA
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Legal
Listed on leak site
Sep 30, 2026
Data size
5.7 GB
Records
360+ client/matter folders, 25+ SSNs, 55+ employee files, 100+ tax returns, 11 email archive files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. is a boutique law firm founded in 1999 in Birmingham, Michigan, serving high-net-worth individuals and closely held entities. The firm practises real estate, corporate, estate planning, personal injury, medical malpractice, and commercial litigation.

Industry
Legal Services
Address
Birmingham, Michigan, US
Founded
1999

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of attorney-client privileged communications at scale, full SSNs and PII for 25+ individuals, Protected Health Information from named hospitals, tax returns spanning 21 years, and materials related to a publicly-traded company CEO. Multiple categories of regulated and highly sensitive data across legal, financial, and medical domains.

AUR0RA claims to have exfiltrated the complete attorney-client privilege corpus spanning 360+ client matters, including litigation strategy memos, settlement agreements, and deposition notes. The group also published full Social Security Numbers for 25+ individuals, Protected Health Information from multiple hospitals, 55+ employee files from a sexual health clinic client, 100+ client tax returns (2003–2024), and 11 years of unfiltered attorney email archives (PST/OST).

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Attorney-client privilege documents (litigation strategy, settlements, case assessments)
  • Full Social Security Numbers (25+ individuals, including scanned cards)
  • Protected Health Information (hospital admission records)
  • Employee files from sexual health clinic client (55+ files with SSNs)
  • Client tax returns (100+, spanning 2003–2024)
  • Email archives (11 PST/OST files)
  • Personal legal matters of Mat Ishbia (CEO of publicly-traded UWM Holdings)

What the group claims

Boutique law firm in Birmingham, Michigan, founded in 1999 by Jeffrey A. Ishbia and Michael A. Gagleard. Practises real estate, corporate, estate planning, personal injury, medical malpractice, and commercial litigation for high-net-worth individuals and closely held entities.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ 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 — C…

Data the group says was taken

  • attorney-client privileged documents
  • litigation strategy memos
  • settlement agreements
  • deposition notes
  • Social Security Numbers
  • Protected Health Information
  • hospital records
  • employee files
  • tax returns
  • email archives (PST/OST)
  • personal legal matters

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C.

Sources

Source

Indexed 43 minutes ago

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Disclosure context

About AUR0RA

AUR0RA is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least five known victims across the United States, Canada, and Australia. Given the recency of the group's emergence and the limited number of confirmed victims, detailed public attribution from major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, the FBI, or Mandiant has not yet been established, and as such claims regarding origin, affiliation, or operational infrastructure cannot be responsibly made at this time. The group's targeting pattern suggests a deliberate focus on mid-market industries including commercial interiors, real estate and title insurance, warehousing and material handling, manufacturing, and oil and gas and industrial manufacturing sectors, which may indicate an opportunistic selection strategy or a preference for organizations with potentially sensitive operational or financial data and limited cybersecurity maturity. No specific attack methodology, tooling, or extortion tactics have been publicly documented by reputable sources for this group as of the time of this writing, though the sector targeting profile is consistent with groups known to conduct double extortion operations. AUR0RA should be considered an emerging threat actor under active monitoring, with its current operational status assessed as active based on the recency of first observed activity and the absence of any publicly reported law enforcement disruption or disbandment. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2026; most recent post September 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 30, 2026Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. listed by AUR0RA on the group's public leak site
Data size
5.7 GB
Records
360+ client/matter folders, 25+ SSNs, 55+ employee files, 100+ tax returns, 11 email archive files

Other recent disclosures by AUR0RA

AUR0RA has been linked to 21 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full AUR0RA dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Legal sector, which has 241 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AUR0RA 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 AUR0RA'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.