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Smlaw

bd_549719f1208b4834 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Mar 8, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Smlaw

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: 2023-03-08

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

SMT is people-focused and we try to meet the needs of our clients and staff and contribute to a better world. The attorneys and staff at SMT are dedicated to improving our community and supporting the organizations that enrich our lives and help those in need.Our law firm has grown to 24 attorneys plus support staff dedicated to providing personalized and responsive client service. From start to finish, we believe in being people-focused and making sure that each client feels listened to and valued. We want our clients to have confidence that any problem given to us will be handled with efficiency and the utmost consideration.It’s very important to us to support and give back to the community. As a firm and as individuals, we serve on boards, volunteer our time, contribute our money, and share our knowledge. We have the ability to help, and this support comes back in the form of an enhanced community. SMT attorneys and staff are involved with many different organizations that touch the community in many ways. Click on the tabs to the right to see lists of some of the organizations we are involved in. Our staff members receive one day off each year to volunteer for a nonprofit organization.SITE: https://www.smlaw.com Address 90 South E Street, Suite 200Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 8, 2023

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.