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Davis & Young

bd_7e900ed997f07793 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 31, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Davis & Young

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.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-06-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Davis & Young is a respected full service civil litigation law firm based in San Jose, CA. Based in San Jose, California, Davis & Young has over 80years of combined experience in litigation and mediation. Our attorneys are recognized by the legal community for resolving disputes successfully while maintaining high professional standards. The firm's client-centered approach ensures that your case is handled with diligence and responsiveness at all stages. Davis & Young handles a broad range of legal matters, from employment disputes and public entity defense to catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. Learn More about our practice areas.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 31, 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 2022-10-20

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.

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