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Leger & Shaw

bd_e51e049a5214dfcb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 16, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Leger & Shaw

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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: 2025-12-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Leger & Shaw is a New Orleans-based law firm established in 1979, specializing in maritime and admiralty law, class actions, complex litigation, commercial litigation, and serious personal injury claims. The firm is committed to providing personal service and effectively advocating for clients' rights throughout their legal journeys. Known for handling high-profile and complex cases, Leger & Shaw has recovered substantial settlements for clients affected by significant incidents such as the BP Oil Spill. Their contingency fee arrangement allows clients to seek legal representation without upfront costs, ensuring access to experienced legal services

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 16, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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 2022-10-20

dragonforce

According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.

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