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Commercial Solicitors

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 1, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

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: 2023-11-01
View aggregator listing on ransomware.live

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Catherine Gannon, then a tax solicitor at a large US law firm, looks out from their ivory tower and spots a gap in the market. This gap is the lack of high quality legal advice for entrepreneurs and SMEs. Research quickly reveals that SMEs generate most of the UK’s GNP – far more than the quoted sector produces. Many larger law firms claim to service SMEs but in reality smaller businesses are pushed to the bottom of the pile. The opportunity has crystallised – the delivery of top quality legal advice SMEs need within a sensible price bracket.SITE: www.gannons.co.uk Address 20-21 Jockey’s Fields Holborn, London WC1R 4BW

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Nov 1, 2023

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

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.