The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
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Full breach record for The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group ALPHV / BlackCat 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 Law Foundation of Silicon Valley uses innovative legal advocacy as a tool for social change. We work tirelessly to ensure that every person in our thriving region is granted the same rights and legal access. Every day, our attorneys, social workers and advocates craft inventive solutions to the life-changing legal issues facing low-income people in Silicon Valley. Our mission is to advance the rights of under-represented individuals and families in our diverse community through legal services, strategic advocacy, and educational outreach.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 6, 2023
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
Not assessable
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_24da56f2abf2baec2023-07-06 · +122dCandidate
- Maine State AGbd_5a62cf87f4eb8d0c2023-07-06 · +122dVerified
- California State AGbd_9e708111008076222023-07-06 · +122dVerified
- Montana State AGbd_dec02ac19b20e1d82023-07-06 · +122dVerified
Show 2 more filings ↓Show fewer ↑up to 140d gap
- New Hampshire State AGbd_4c53d0e902bff78d2023-07-10 · +126dVerified
- Massachusetts State AGbd_699f1219221367bd2023-07-24 · +140dVerified
Press reports (1)
- Pressalphvbd_1a3595eb20c0a82e2023-02-18 · +16dCandidate
Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jul 6 (IN), last Jul 24 (MA) — a 18-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
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- ransom/leak status
- discovery date
- materiality
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- affected count
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
alphv
According to ransomware.live, The operators of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware began their activity in December 2021, making posts on Dark Web forums to promote their affiliate program, offering other actors the opportunity to engage in a 'new type of ransomware family' developed from scratch using the Rust programming language. Some clear evidence indicates that the actors behind this new ransomware are not new to cybercrime, and there were links to other affiliate programs such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and REvil. (After several attacks against large companies, these groups faced pressure and arrests, necessitating the termination of their operations). As a security measure, the operators of ALPHV implemented the requirement for the execution of the ransomware payload by providing an 'access token,' which is supplied by the owners of the Ransomware-as-a-Service to the affiliate. This token is added to the victim's ransom note so that they can contact the threat actor responsible for encrypting the data. ALPHV affiliates employ double and triple extortion techniques, meaning the publication of the company's name on leak sites, threats of data leakage, and lastly, threats of DDoS attacks against the organization. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs