Was Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC hit by ransomware?

Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC was listed by the Royal 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 Royal ransomware group?

Royal 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 Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC breach?

Royal published data attributed to Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC, around 56 Employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC

Claimed by Royal · listed 4 years ago

56 Employees

Records

$14M

Ransom

demanded

43m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 16, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Royal
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Legal
Listed on leak site: Dec 16, 2022
Records: 56 Employees
Ransom demanded: $14M
Estimated revenue: $14M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Naulty, Scaricamazza & McDevitt, LLC is a Philadelphia-based law firm founded in 1952, practicing primarily in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The firm specializes in insurance defense and civil litigation, representing self-insured clients including retail stores, shopping centers, manufacturing companies, trucking companies, and governmental entities, as well as a broad range of insurance-sector clients. With approximately 56 employees, it is regarded as one of the more active defense litigation firms in the tri-state region.

Industry: Legal Services – Insurance Defense & Civil Litigation
Address: 1617 JFK Blvd, Suite 750, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, United States
Employees: 56
Founded: 1952

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The disclosure status is 'data_published', meaning exfiltration and release of data is claimed. As a law firm representing insurance and governmental entities, the stolen data almost certainly includes large volumes of PII, privileged legal communications, sensitive litigation materials, and financial records across many client matters — constituting regulated and highly sensitive data at scale.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have attacked Naulty, Scaricamazza & McDevitt and has listed the disclosure as 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and publication of data; the ransom demand is stated as $14 million, consistent with the firm's reported annual revenue figure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Insurance defense case records
Personally identifiable information (PII) of clients and opposing parties
Corporate and governmental entity records
Attorney-client privileged communications
Financial records

What the group claims

NaultyPennsylvania, United States · 56 Employees Headquarters: 1617 Jfk Blvd Ste 750, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, United StatesPhone Number: (215) 568-5116Website: www.naulty.comRevenue: $14 MillionNaulty, Scaricamazza & McDevitt was founded in 1952 by the late John F. Naulty following his service as house counsel for two national insurance companies. He was then joined by Angelo L. Scaricamazza and Francis T. McDevitt. Angelo continued to practice law and lead the firm until his untimely passing on December 2, 2020. Francis remains a prominent attorney and leader. The firm has grown from small beginnings to being considered among the most active and respected firms in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.Since it’s founding, our firm’s mission continues to be providing the highest level of representation while focusing on the individual needs of our clients. By thoroughly understanding and analyzing clients’ needs, we deliver tangible results that exceed their expectations. Our philosophy has earned us a strong reputation for superior counsel, cost-conscious litigation strategies and loyal clients.Our attorneys are all committed to providing our clients with diligent, aggressive and professionally responsible representation. Our firm’s self-insured clients consist of retail stores, shopping centers, manufacturing companies, trucking companies, and related governmental entities. On the insurance side, the firm has represented almost every type of business in existence.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 16, 2022Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Records: 56 Employees
Ransom demanded: $14M

Other recent disclosures by Royal

Royal has been linked to 211 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 Legal sector, which has 241 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Royal means Naulty, Scaricamazza and McDevitt, LLC 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 Royal'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.