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Unknown Law Firm (Criminal Defense)

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 22 hours ago

710.6 GB / 338,542 files
Data size
338,542 files records
Today
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 28, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Legal Services
Listed on leak site
Sep 28, 2026
Data size
710.6 GB / 338,542 files
Records
338,542 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A criminal defense law firm operating in the United States, specializing in felony and misdemeanor representation across DUI, domestic violence, fraud, and other criminal matters. The firm handles approximately 175+ active clients with attorney fees ranging from $750 to $25,000 per case.

Industry
Criminal Defense Law

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly sensitive regulated data: criminal case files of 175+ clients with full personal identifiers, victim and witness PII protected under Marsy's Law, immigration/ICE custody data, police discovery materials, and work product. Exposure of criminal defense files creates severe operational, privacy, and legal risks for both clients and counsel; sensitive individuals (minors, domestic violence victims, vulnerable witnesses) are directly named in the disclosure.

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated a complete practice dossier covering ~175+ criminal defense clients, including case files with police discovery (bodycam video, 911 recordings, jail calls, incident reports), arrest data, probation violations, and witness/victim information. The leak post includes sensitive details on specific clients and their charges and frames the data as exclusive for auction.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Criminal case files (~175+ clients)
  • Police discovery materials (bodycam video ~206 GB, 911 recordings, jail calls)
  • Incident reports and photo line-ups
  • Arrest records and fingerprint cards (FD-258, FDLE expungement packets)
  • Victim and witness personal data (Marsy's Law protected)
  • DUI breath-test records and SCRAM monitoring data
  • Attorney work product and fee records
  • ICE custody and immigration case data
  • GPS monitoring and Risk Protection Order records

What the group claims

An unidentified law firm with a criminal defense practice. Data includes ~175+ client files covering felonies, DUI matters, violations of probation, FDLE expungement packets with fingerprint cards, Risk Protection Orders, ICE custody cases, and GPS monitoring records. Also includes ~206 GB of bodycam video, 911 recordings, jail calls, police discovery, incident reports, photo line-ups, FCIC/NCIC forms, and victim/witness data protected under Marsy's Law. Attorney fees range from $750 to $25,000.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Contents. A complete dossier of the firm's criminal defense practice covering ~175+ clients: felonies (an undercover sex sting involving a minor - Ramirez; domestic violence robbery - Valderrama, involving a 4-year-old child; felony DUI - Segula; fraud - B. Williams), a core caseload of ~10 DUI matters (including an arrest at breath readings of 0.011 and SCRAM alcohol monitoring), violations of probation (VOP), FDLE expungement packets with FD-258 fingerprint cards, a 'red flag' Risk Protection Order (RPO), 2 clients in ICE custody, and a material witness under GPS monitoring for 3+ years. Attorney fees range from $750 to $25,000. The case files include complete police discovery: ~206 GB of bodycam video, 911 recordings, and jail calls, incident reports, photo line-ups, FCIC/NCIC forms, and victim and witness data (Marsy's Law).
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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
  • HR records
  • SSNs
  • bank account details
  • EIN
  • IOLTA trust account statements
  • ACH/EFT authorizations
  • credit card statements
  • settlement wire records
  • W-9 forms
  • direct deposit forms

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Unknown Law Firm (Criminal Defense)

Sources

Source

Indexed 22 hours 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 348 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post September 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 28, 2026Unknown Law Firm (Criminal Defense) listed by Rhysida on the group's public leak site
Data size
710.6 GB / 338,542 files
Records
338,542 files

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 348 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 Services sector. Geographically, Unknown Law Firm (Criminal Defense) is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Unknown Law Firm (Criminal Defense) 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.