The Law Office of James R Walsh
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Full breach record for The Law Office of James R Walsh →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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
jrwalshlaw.com The Law Office of James R. Walsh is a small plaintiff-side law firm in Lynnwood, WA (north of Seattle), specializing in workers' compensation (L&I claims), personal injury, maritime, and Social Security cases. Founder James R. Walsh (admitted 1981) has practiced for 44+ years and was named to "Top Attorneys of North America 2015-16." The firm fights for injured workers against Washington's Dept. of Labor & Industries and self-insured employers, with published precedents including Elliott v. L&I (2009) and ITT Rayonier v. Dalman (1992). It acts as a talent incubator — attorney Joshua L. Hughes (UW Law, JD with honors) rose from paralegal (2017) to attorney (2022), following the path of earlier associates.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 6, 2026
Claim posted
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Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
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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.
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.
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.