Law Offices of James Scott Farrin
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Full breach record for Law Offices of James Scott Farrin →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sinobi 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
The James Scott Farrin Law Firm is a legal services firm that handles personal injury, medical malpractice, eminent domain cases, and more. The firm is based in Durham, North Carolina with additional offices based around North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 6, 2025
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
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_20cc34c1f42cc9722026-02-27 · +143dCandidate
- Massachusetts State AGbd_c80c2e6443472b342026-03-23 · +167dVerified
Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Feb 27 (IN), last Mar 23 (MA) — a 24-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.
sinobi
According to ransomware.live, Sinobi is a private vetted-affiliate RaaS group that emerged in mid-2025, believed to be a rebrand of the Lynx/INC ransomware lineage, claiming 176 victims by end of 2025 through double-extortion attacks primarily against mid-market US organizations via compromised SonicWall VPN credentials.