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Gleason, Flynn, Emig & Fogleman, Chartered

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 31, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

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: 2024-11-19
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Gleason, Flynn, Emig & McAfee, Chartered was founded in 1983 as Gleason & Flynn, when the firm’s founders, Jim Gleason and Mike Flynn decided to create a firm of skilled and aggressive trial lawyers. Gerard Emig and Larry McAfee became shareholders in 1991 and 2006, respectively. Over the years the firm has increased in size yet its mission has remained constant: The attorneys at GFEM are dedicated to using their experience and expertise to best service the legal needs of their clients.SITE: www.gfemlaw.com Address : 11 North Washington Street Suite 400, Rockville MD 20850-4278, USTEL#: 301.294.2110ALL DATA SIZE: ≈550gb 1. Corporate data 2. Users personal folders and documents 3. Customers data and personal docs 4. Confidential data & etc...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 31, 2024

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteOct 31 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+214d

Pattern: first filing Oct 31, last Jun 2 (NH) — a 214-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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.