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SHAHEEN LAW GROUP PLC - Richmond, Virginia, USA

bd_2c3f180fd91449d7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 24, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for SHAHEEN LAW GROUP PLC - Richmond, Virginia, USA

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Deadlock 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: 2026-08-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Family law firm, established 1995 by Victor A. Shaheen (†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 their customers decide which number to believe) EVIDENCE — SERIES PREVIEW (from their actual files) - S1 DEEDS WITH SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS File: "5053815 - Unsigned Deed.docx" (verbatim from their server): "***-**-XXXX B•••• H••• Social Security Number ***-**-XXXX J••••• H••• Social Security Number 10356 Ashburn Road, North Chesterfield, VA 23235" File: "Kelley 5042085 - DEED.docx": "PURCHASER(S): N••••• S••• SELLER'S NAME: S••• E. K•••• SS#: ***-**-XXXX ...including the withholding of twenty percent (20%) of the sales proceeds." ← FIRPTA: foreign sellers. IRS will want this list. We have it. Thousands of these. Every deed folder = a name, a number, an address, a transaction. Their client roster IS the leak. - S3 INSIDE THEIR BANKING & THEIR NETWORK File: "shared_Accounting/Banking/Other Banking/Shaheen DDA Statements SunTrust DDA" (email from SunTrustOnlineCourier to their own staff — headers verbatim): Received: from barracuda.shaheenlaw.com ([10.0.0.6]) by ricdcex1.shaheenlaw.com ... X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1291233029-... for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 Why we publish an email HEADER: their in

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 24, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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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.

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