Statesman Business Advisors
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Full breach record for Statesman Business Advisors →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Another law firm that not only cannot protect confidential customer data, but after the leak, instead of negotiations, happily went to receive insurance compensation for itself. How will hundreds of their clients who have lost their confidential information react to this? How much damage will this do to their business? We don't know that. Just as we don't know how the insurance company will react when it finds out that its client intentionally increased the damage by refusing to engage in dialogue.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Apr 4, 2025
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
Not assessable
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Sitedragonforcebd_34fb83da3ac349fc2025-04-11 · +7dVerified by operator
Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- Vermont State AGbd_067f8aa432965bfc2025-08-19 · +137dVerified by operator
- Indiana State AGbd_827420f650e2a8042025-08-19 · +137dVerified by operator
- Montana State AGbd_9875d9dd99130c8e2025-08-20 · +138dCandidate
- Texas State AGbd_92c44cc664889bad2025-08-22 · +140dVerified
Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Apr 4, last Aug 22 (TX) — a 140-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
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.
dragonforce
According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.