THE COLLINS LAW FIRM
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Full breach record for THE COLLINS LAW FIRM →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Top-Rated Naperville Personal Injury, Environmental, and Business Attorneys With the Courage to Take on Powerful Interests for You When someone causes harm to you and your family, you need aggressive, knowledgeable lawyers in your corner. At The Collins Law Firm, we pride ourselves in our ability to take the fight to powerful interests that take advantage of you. It is our privilege as Naperville personal injury lawyers to represent the injured and deliver the justice each of our clients deserves. Whether at our law firm in Naperville, Illinois, or in trial courts throughout the state and country, our attorneys can provide you with the aggressive legal representation you need. Contact us and arrange a free consultation if you are suffering due to: Environmental contamination that is making you and your family sick, or damaging your property value The wrongful death of a loved one Injuries sustained due to a car accident, medical malpractice, defective product or other negligent conduct The breach of a business contract
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jul 23, 2023
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
Not assessable
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_7e40b096d49d6d582023-09-08 · +47dVerified by operator
- Illinois State AGbd_10c6c52ed3e666812023-01-01 · +203dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Sep 8 (IN) — a 250-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
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.
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According to ransomware.live, The operators of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware began their activity in December 2021, making posts on Dark Web forums to promote their affiliate program, offering other actors the opportunity to engage in a 'new type of ransomware family' developed from scratch using the Rust programming language. Some clear evidence indicates that the actors behind this new ransomware are not new to cybercrime, and there were links to other affiliate programs such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and REvil. (After several attacks against large companies, these groups faced pressure and arrests, necessitating the termination of their operations). As a security measure, the operators of ALPHV implemented the requirement for the execution of the ransomware payload by providing an 'access token,' which is supplied by the owners of the Ransomware-as-a-Service to the affiliate. This token is added to the victim's ransom note so that they can contact the threat actor responsible for encrypting the data. ALPHV affiliates employ double and triple extortion techniques, meaning the publication of the company's name on leak sites, threats of data leakage, and lastly, threats of DDoS attacks against the organization. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs