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Shaheen Law Group PLC

Claimed by Deadlock · listed 2 hours ago

27GB
Data size
36788 files, 67000+ SSN patterns (6017 unique individuals) records
Today
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 25, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Deadlock
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Legal/Real Estate
Listed on leak site
Aug 25, 2026
Data size
27GB
Records
36788 files, 67000+ SSN patterns (6017 unique individuals)

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Shaheen Law Group PLC is a Virginia-based law firm established in 1995 that specializes in real estate transactions and relocation services. Operating from four offices across Virginia, the firm closes over 150 real estate transactions monthly for major corporate relocation programs, serving Fortune 500 companies and their relocating employees.

Industry
Legal Services & Real Estate Transactions
Address
Richmond, Virginia, USA (with offices in Midlothian, Virginia Beach, Newport News)
Employees
48
Founded
1995

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale PII including Social Security numbers, financial account details, home addresses, and family identities for thousands of individuals. Medical records and banking information present. Regulated data under Virginia §18.2-186.6 and Illinois BIPA. Operational scale (150+ monthly transactions) means exposure affects numerous third parties beyond the firm.

Deadlock claims to have exfiltrated 36,788 files totaling 27GB from Shaheen Law Group's shared network folders and servers. The group asserts they obtained deeds, banking statements, client lists, medical files, and litigation documents containing sensitive personally identifiable information including Social Security numbers, bank account details, home addresses, and family information for thousands of individuals undergoing corporate relocation.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Social Security numbers (67,000+ patterns claimed, 6,017+ individuals)
  • Real estate deeds with personal identifiers
  • Home addresses and family information
  • Banking statements (150+ SunTrust DDA attachments)
  • Bank wiring instructions and account details
  • Medical clearance/health records (120 files)
  • Client folder structures with transaction history
  • Litigation case files
  • Internal network topology and email headers
  • FIRPTA withholding documentation

The group's post references roughly Evidence series preview with 4 named file examples (S1-S5 series advertised, specific files quoted verbatim) proof files.

What the group claims

Law firm established in 1995, now run by three sons of founder. 48 employees across four offices in Richmond, Midlothian, Virginia Beach, and Newport News, Virginia. Closes 150+ real estate transactions monthly for large corporate relocation programs.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Publishes after: <b>4d 18h 8m</b>
Furniture Bargaining Council in South Africa. This is the tariff council for the furniture, mattress and upholstery industry.The platform serves employers and employees in the industry in regions such as Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Free State to handle legal and administrative processes. 
Publishes after: <b>5d 18h 4m</b>
SHAHEEN LAW GROUP PLC - Richmond, Virginia, USA
, established 1995 by (†2025 - the General Assembly of Virginia honored him with a resolution; google it, it is touching). Now run by his three sons. 48 employees across four offices: Richmond, Midlothian, Virginia Beach, Newport News. What do they do? They close 150+ real estate transactions EVERY MONTH for some of the largest corporate relocation programs in America. When a Fortune-500 moves an employee to Virginia, this firm holds that employee's Social Security Number, bank wiring details, home address, family identities, and sometimes their medical clearance. They hold everyone's future in a shared folder. We now hold the folder. 
WHAT WE TOOK 36,788 files · 27GB · 21,789 fully read 67,000+ SSN patterns (their own dedup says 6,017 real people — we will let t…

Data the group says was taken

  • Social Security Numbers
  • bank wiring details
  • home addresses
  • family identities
  • medical clearance documents
  • deeds
  • banking statements
  • client lists
  • medical files
  • litigation files
  • promissory notes

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Shaheen Law Group PLC

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Deadlock

Deadlock is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 10 known victims across a geographically diverse target set. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. Based on available victimology data, the group has demonstrated a targeting pattern spanning Singapore, China, Sweden, Spain, and Nigeria, suggesting an opportunistic or globally distributed operational scope rather than a regionally focused campaign. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, business services, telecommunications, and financial services, indicating a preference for industries with high operational dependencies and potential for significant disruption, which is consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking maximum leverage for ransom payment. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or specific tooling has been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of this profile's preparation. Due to the group's nascent operational timeline and the limited volume of publicly verified intelligence, analysts should treat this profile as preliminary and subject to significant revision as additional technical indicators, victim disclosures, and research reporting become available. Continued monitoring is advised given the cross-sector and cross-regional targeting behavior observed in this early operational phase. The group has been linked to 116 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 15, 2026; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 25, 2026Shaheen Law Group PLC listed by Deadlockon the group's public leak site
Data size
27GB
Records
36788 files, 67000+ SSN patterns (6017 unique individuals)

Other recent disclosures by Deadlock

Deadlock has been linked to 116 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/Real Estate sector. Geographically, Shaheen Law Group PLC is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Deadlock means Shaheen Law Group PLC 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 Deadlock'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.