Riley Pope & Laney LLC
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Full breach record for Riley Pope & Laney LLC →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cicada3301 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
Riley Pope & Laney was founded in 2001 by Ted Riley, Lowndes Pope and Roy Laney. Since its founding, our firm has continually grown and we now have offices in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia providing legal counsel in the areas of banking and financial services, real estate transactions and litigation, business and defense litigation, commercial transactions, technology, and all manners of intellectual property to include patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law. We practice in all state and federal courts in North and South Carolina and Georgia, the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the United States Supreme Court. Our practical approach enables us to effectively and efficiently resolve your issues. With a unique understanding of state government processes and complex public policy initiatives, our firm is ideally suited to provide strategic counsel and legislative representation for clients before the South Carolina General Assembly, Governor’s Office, state agencies and local governments.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 14, 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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap
- Maryland State AGbd_09a5c4d47e114ef32025-02-12 · +182dVerified
- Massachusetts State AGbd_36844e1603c5b30c2025-02-12 · +182dVerified by operator
- Montana State AGbd_535ae6ac4dd71bc72025-02-12 · +182dCandidate
- Indiana State AGbd_b926ffe984f3cfb42025-02-12 · +182dVerified
Show 3 more filings ↓Show fewer ↑up to 182d gap
- Maine State AGbd_d3683542a09e86b82025-02-12 · +182dVerified by operator
- Vermont State AGbd_e6784912f7512be32025-02-12 · +182dVerified
- South Carolina State AGbd_f024a7ce146e49d52025-02-12 · +182dVerified
Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Aug 14, last Feb 12 (SC) — a 182-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.
cicada3301
According to ransomware.live, Cicada3301 is a ransomware-as-a-service group (tracked as Repellent Scorpius by Palo Alto) that emerged in mid-2024 using Rust-based ransomware targeting Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems, suspected to be a successor of BlackCat/ALPHV and running an affiliate program with 20% commissions.