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Law Society of South Africa
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Full breach record for Law Society of South Africa →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group ALPHV / BlackCat 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: 2023-10-09
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Attorneys and advocates in South Africa are registered with the Legal Practice Council in terms of the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014. Since 1998 the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) has represented the attorneys’ profession.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/id/TGF3IFNvY2lldHkgb2YgU291dGggQWZyaWNhQGFscGh2
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 9, 2023
- Raw hash
- 9de10db8f1a017c7cea8cc0fa71b3a37e12aff990f7b7b80ab82599a66e81413
Reporting entity
- Name
- alphv
Victim entity
- Name
- Law Society of South Africanorm: law society of south africa
- Domain
- lssa.org.za
- Industry
- Professional Servicesllm
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· alphv
- Threat actor
- ALPHVExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.