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Gleason, Flynn, Emig & McAfee, Chartered

listed as gfemlaw.com · Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

550 GB
Data size
2. Users records
20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Black Basta
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Nov 19, 2024
Data size
550 GB
Records
2. Users

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gleason, Flynn, Emig & McAfee, Chartered is a litigation law firm founded in 1983 in Rockville, Maryland. The firm specializes in commercial litigation, medical malpractice, personal injury, construction law, and creditors' rights, with a team of experienced trial lawyers.

Industry
Legal Services - Litigation & Trial Law
Address
11 North Washington Street, Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20850-4278, USA
Employees
51-200
Founded
1983

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Law firm data typically contains attorney-client privileged communications, client PII, financial records, and sensitive case information. Exfiltration of 550 GB of such material from a legal practice poses severe regulatory, privacy, and operational risks.

Black Basta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 550 GB of data from the firm, including corporate records, employee personal documents, client data, and confidential materials. The group has published the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate data
  • Employee personal folders and documents
  • Client data and personal documents
  • Confidential firm records

What the group claims

Gleason, Flynn, Emig & McAfee, Chartered was founded in 1983 as Gleason & Flynn, when the firm’s founders, Jim Gleason and Mike Flynn decided to create a firm of skilled and aggressive trial lawyers. Gerard Emig and Larry McAfee became shareholders in 1991 and 2006, respectively. Over the years the firm has increased in size yet its mission has remained constant: The attorneys at GFEM are dedicated to using their experience and expertise to best service the legal needs of their clients.SITE: www.gfemlaw.com Address : 11 North Washington Street Suite 400, Rockville MD 20850-4278, USTEL#: 301.294.2110ALL DATA SIZE: ≈550gb 1. Corporate data 2. Users personal folders and documents 3. Customers data and personal docs 4. Confidential data & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Black Basta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has since compromised approximately 800 organizations worldwide. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with suspected ties to the now-defunct Conti ransomware operation, though their exact country of origin remains unconfirmed by law enforcement agencies. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of known vulnerabilities, and credential stuffing attacks, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware that employs ChaCha20 encryption algorithm and employs double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with a particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. Notable victims have included various healthcare systems and manufacturing companies, though specific ransom amounts and high-profile attacks have not been widely disclosed in public law enforcement advisories. As of 2024, Black Basta remains an active threat with continued operations and regular updates to their leak site indicating ongoing compromise activities. The group has been linked to 1,323 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2022; most recent post January 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: BlackBasta.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 19, 2024gfemlaw.com listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
550 GB
Records
2. Users

Other recent disclosures by Black Basta

Black Basta has been linked to 1,323 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, gfemlaw.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means gfemlaw.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 Black Basta'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.