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McAndrews Law Offices

bd_9ec98d1ef0e92c6e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 16, 2022

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for McAndrews Law Offices →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: 2022-12-16
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

McAndrews Law Offices Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, McAndrews Law Firm is a legal representation firm. McAndrews Law Offices is a nationally recognized firm that is committed to providing families of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Area, and New Jersey with exceptional legal representation. Since 1982, McAndrews Law Offices has provided exceptional representation on matters involving probate, estate planning, planning when a family member has a disability, special needs trusts, personal injury, guardianship, special education, public benefits for seniors, long-term medical care and elder law.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 16, 2022

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 groupFirst seen 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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