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Ridge Law Firm

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

May 12, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Ridge Law Firm

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Spacebears 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2026-05-27

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Ridge Law Firm (ridgelawfirm.com) is a personal injury law firm based in the Bronx, New York. Led by attorney Michael T. Ridge, the firm has been serving injured clients in the Bronx for over 20–30 years. They operate under the memorable brand 1-800-THE-BRONX and focus heavily on accident victims. The firm offers no fee unless they win (contingency basis), free consultations, and even free Uber rides for in-person meetings. They emphasize aggressive representation and have recovered millions of dollars for clients in compensation for medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, etc.- Client medical records- Financial records- Expert witness reports- Etc More than 1.6 TB of data https://ridgelawfirm.com

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 12, 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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-25

spacebears

According to ransomware.live, Space Bears is a double-extortion ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, distinguished by a professional "corporate" aesthetic on its leak site, leveraging Phobos RaaS infrastructure and targeting small-to-medium organizations in manufacturing, technology, and healthcare across the US and Europe.

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