Was Criminal Defense Law Firm (unnamed) hit by ransomware?

Criminal Defense Law Firm (unnamed) was listed by the Rhysida ransomware operation (United States) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Rhysida ransomware group?

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Criminal Defense Law Firm (unnamed)

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 48 minutes ago

~206 GB

Data size

~175+ clients records

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 29, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Rhysida
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: United States
Sector: Legal
Listed on leak site: Sep 29, 2026
Data size: ~206 GB
Records: ~175+ clients

What the group claims

A criminal defense law firm with ~175+ clients, holding case files including felonies, DUI matters, probation violations, FDLE expungement packets, ICE custody records, bodycam video, 911 recordings, jail calls, police discovery, and victim/witness data.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

2.478.837 files1.84 TBThe tax, banking and debt secrets of hundreds of American HOAs and thousands of homeowners - complete with SSNs, account numbers and signatures.Genuine W-9 forms with Social Security numbers, addresses and signatures; IRS 1099-MISC/NEC e-file transmissions for 2014�2025 - thousands of vendor TINs/SSNsHomeowners' banking keys: ACH debit files with routing and account numbers, USAA brokerage statements, signed bank signature cardsPeople's debts by name: assessments through September 2026, bankruptcies, late-fee waivers, hardship letters from debtors begging for payment plansPersonal documents: HUD-1 home purchase settlements (names, prices, mortgages), signed waivers with addresses, HOA election ballots with voter namesFull SQL Server databases: RM_Warehouse, RM_Sales, RM_Portals, CiraNetIdentity (portal accounts), CiraBooks_GL (general ledger)Mail and document flow: CiraMail$, CiraDocs$, SalesDocs$
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Data the group says was taken

client case files
bodycam video
911 recordings
jail calls
incident reports
photo line-ups
FCIC/NCIC forms
victim and witness data
fingerprint cards
GPS monitoring records
attorney fee records

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Criminal Defense Law Firm (unnamed)

Sources

Leak posthttp://rhysidafc6lm7qa2mkiukbezh7zuth3i4wof4mh2audkymscjm6yegad.onion/archive.php?last&auction

Source

Indexed 48 minutes ago

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 351 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post September 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 29, 2026Criminal Defense Law Firm (unnamed) listed by Rhysida on the group's public leak site

Data size: ~206 GB
Records: ~175+ clients

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 351 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Rhysida 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, Criminal Defense Law Firm (unnamed) is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Criminal Defense Law Firm (unnamed) appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 Rhysida'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.