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Smith Hawks, PL

listed as Smith Hawks · Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 7 months ago

7m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Worldleaks
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Dec 16, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Smith Hawks, PL is a boutique law firm based in Key West, Florida, offering a wide range of legal services across multiple practice areas. The firm employs six named attorneys and positions itself as providing large-firm quality with the flexibility of a smaller practice. It is located at 138 Simonton Street, Key West, Florida.

Industry
Legal Services
Address
138 Simonton Street, Key West, Florida 33040, U.S.A.
Employees
1-10

Attack summary

Severity: high — A law firm handles privileged legal communications, client PII, financial records, and potentially sensitive case materials; a data_published status means data has been released, making this high severity even without explicit inventory details due to the inherently sensitive nature of legal client data.

The worldleaks group has listed Smith Hawks, PL as a victim with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating data has been released. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration methods, or data categories were provided in the leak post.

high

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 16, 2025Smith Hawks listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full worldleaks dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Smith Hawks is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Smith Hawks 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 worldleaks'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.