Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (maflaw.com)
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Full breach record for Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (maflaw.com) →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Aurora 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
[law] Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (maflaw.com). The exfiltrated corpus is 579 GB used / 143 GB at root level / 196,701 files / 19,231 directories, dated as recently as a year-2026-in-progress client matter. What this means for a plaintiffs' PI firm of ~25 staff: 656 client-matter folders organised across eight yearly parents from June 2019 through 2026-in-progress. Per-client medical records, HIPAA authorisations, police reports, settlement releases, IOLTA distribution sheets, retainer agreements, and treating-provider correspondence. Two staff Outlook archives at 2.1 GB each, plus a 505 MB Outlook backup, plus 27 enumerated .pst files — years of attorney–client privileged correspondence, settlement strategy, opposing-counsel comms. The complete Sage ACT. Pro v18 contact universe — the live database plus eight historical ZIP backups going back to 2013 plus a 9.3 MB plaintext export (ACT!-Contacts.txt) that any text editor can open. Estimated 5,000–12,000 contacts. The firm's master credential vault in a Word document called Woodywoody78!.docx (the filename is itself the vault password). Plaintext credentials for M&T Bank multi-identity business + commercial accounts (with electronic-payment-approval authority), Bank of America, Paychex, QuickBooks, and the firm's federal EIN. Plus the senior partner's phone-unlock PIN. A staff browser-exported password CSV (32 plaintext credentials) including the M365 tenant, the Slack tenant, hospital portals (MedStar, GBMC, Allstate secure mail), MoveDocs, ChartRequest, MSHC Legal portal — plus residual credentials from prior employers SLF Law and Bailey Law, creating cross-firm contamination liability. The Universal Licensing / Freedman Consulting invention-promotion operation — a second line of business under the same EIN, with hundreds of inventor folders. Per-inventor unpublished invention disclosures, “Internet P
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 23, 2026
- Raw hash
- e20e79ff48f97a396bc9535eb7f590dd4301c3be05cbb51e2aac6d2aedd6f5c8
Reporting entity
- Name
- aurora
Victim entity
- Name
- Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (maflaw.com)norm: law offices of michael a freedman pa maflawcom
- Domain
- maflaw.com
- Industry
- Professional Services
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· aurora
- Threat actor
- AuroraExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.