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Brown & Streza, LLP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 26, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Brown & Streza, LLP

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Losttrust 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2023-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

OUR MISSION Serve families, businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and charitable organizations through our unified approach to business and personal planning. Provide exceptional, integrated domestic and international legal services in: • Comprehensive Tax Planning • Trusts & Estates Planning • Ultra-High-Net-Worth Planning • Trust & Estate Administration • Charitable Sector • Business Planning • Mergers & Acquisitions • Business Succession Planning • Real Estate Proactively serve clients, staff, and professional advisors by investing in technology, education, and long-term relationships.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 26, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 137d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Vermont State AGMay 12 · first
Massachusetts State AGMay 12 · first
Indiana State AGMay 12 · first
Montana State AGMay 12 · first
California State AGMay 12 · first
Leak Site+137d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 12 (VT), last Dec 22 (MT) — a 224-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.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-09-26

losttrust

According to ransomware.live, LostTrust is a double-extortion ransomware operation that emerged in March 2023 and publicized over 50 victims within days of launching its leak site in September 2023, believed to be a rebrand of the MetaEncryptor gang, primarily targeting manufacturing, professional services, construction, and education sectors with 71% of known victims in the US.

53 victims claimed globally53 tracked hereFull profile →

Brown & Streza, LLP data breach claim (2023) — unverified leak-site allegation · DisclosureLens