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VR Advogados

bd_7f90dcd89c9b59b2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 15, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for VR Advogados →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Barracuda 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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-08-15
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

VR Advogados, a Brazilian law firm, neglected its clients’ personal data, violating laws regarding data storage and confidentiality—they posted and shared all of their clients’ documents, passport information, and powers of attorney via a Discord server. We hacked it. Now we have 3,000 documents belonging to all of their clients—passports, powers of attorney, declarations, personal and work-related correspondence, and more. The firm hasn’t responded to us for three days; if this continues, we’ll start selling the data. | Status: upcoming | Size: 10 GB | Starts at $30000.00

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 15, 2026

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

  • 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 group

barracuda

9 victims claimed globally9 tracked hereFull profile →