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Shipleys LLP

bd_39dc48bcfa33d49c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jan 5, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Shipleys LLP

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ransomhouse 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2024-02-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Shipleys is a founding member of AGN International, a global association of separate and independent accounting and advisory businesses. We are also active members of AGN UK & Ireland and support its nationwide service helping SMEs, mid-sized businesses, high net worth families and trusts across the UK and Ireland. The mission of AGN is to enable its members to support businesses and individuals with high standards, straight-forward and practical business advice and local commercial know-how, wherever the need arises worldwide. Our AGN membership gives us direct access to such advice globally, within a structure of trusted relationships that is designed to deliver high standards at an affordable cost; an antidote to the complexity and cost of some global providers. AGN International is composed of 5 regions. Within each region and worldwide, member firms collaborate to meet clients’ needs, and improve client service by understanding of each other’s markets and sharing experience and knowledge. Shipleys is one of approximately 200 member firms operating in about 450 offices around the world, providing our clients with support from11,000 partners and staff in almost 100 countries. We have enjoyed a long established record of active involvement with AGN. Ben Bidnell is Shipleys’ main contact point for other AGN firms. Ben is the Chair of The International Business Development Committee; Chair of The EMEA Business Development Committee; and a Member of The EMEA Board of Directors. David Hartles, Mike Luckett and VAT specialist, Nancy Cruickshanks, are other key contacts for AGN firms. Mike is a member of the Members’ Development Committee.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jan 5, 2024

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 2021-06-01

ransomhouse

According to ransomware.live, RansomHouse is a double-extortion RaaS operation active since late 2021, attributed to the threat actor "Jolly Scorpius," targeting over 120 organizations across healthcare, finance, transportation, and government, recently upgrading to a multi-layered dual-key encryption architecture.

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