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Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C.

bd_0ce32f86fa49f177 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 31, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Aurora on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-08-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

[law] Ishbia & Gagleard, P.C. — a boutique law firm in Birmingham, Michigan, founded in 1999 by Jeffrey A. Ishbia and Michael A. Gagleard. The firm practises real estate, corporate, estate planning, personal injury, medical malpractice, and commercial litigation for high-net-worth individuals and closely held entities. The exposed material includes: 360+ client/matter folders — the complete attorney-client privilege corpus: litigation strategy memos, settlement agreements, case assessments, deposition notes, correspondence with opposing counsel. <redacted> <redacted> Full Social Security Numbers for 25+ identified individuals — trust beneficiaries, family members, employees of client businesses, and a scanned Social Security card. Protected Health Information — hospital admission records from Oakwood Hospital, University of Michigan Hospital, and William Beaumont Hospital. Also: 55+ employee files from a sexual health clinic client with SSN searches and scanned SS cards. 100+ client tax returns spanning 2003–2024, each containing SSNs, EINs, and income data. 11 email archive files (PST/OST) containing years of unfiltered attorney correspondence. Personal legal matters of Mat Ishbia — CEO of publicly-traded UWM Holdings Corp. (NYSE: UWMC), the largest wholesale mortgage lender in the United States.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 31, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2026-04-17

aurora

According to ransomware.live, Aurora is a ransomware group associated with a multi-purpose Go-based malware distributed by multiple criminal teams from mid-2022, also sold as an infostealer/botnet under the same name on underground forums.

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