Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (maflaw.com)
auroraThis record tracks a ransomware attack claimed by the aurora group against Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (maflaw.com). It collects the publicly disclosed attack details — sector, location and timeline — as published on the operator's leak site and indexed by Breach House.
Window Zero
EXPOSURE GAPWindow Zero is the time the breach stayed in the open before anyone said so — the gap between when the attack was first discovered on the operator's leak site (t1) and when it was publicly disclosed (t2). The wider this window, the longer victims, staff and customers were exposed with no warning.
Attack Summary
[law] Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (maflaw.com). The exfiltrated corpus is 579 GB used / 143 GB at root level / 196,701 files / 19,231 directories, dated as recently as a year-2026-in-progress client matter. What this means for a plaintiffs' PI firm of ~25 staff: 656 client-matter folders organised across eight yearly parents from June 2019 through 2026-in-progress. Per-client medical records, HIPAA authorisations, police reports, settlement releases, IOLTA distribution sheets, retainer agreements, and treating-provider correspondence. Two staff Outlook archives at 2.1 GB each, plus a 505 MB Outlook backup, plus 27 enumerated .pst files — years of attorney–client privileged correspondence, settlement strategy, opposing-counsel comms. The complete Sage ACT. Pro v18 contact universe — the live database plus eight historical ZIP backups going back to 2013 plus a 9.3 MB plaintext export (ACT!-Contacts.txt) that any text editor can open. Estimated 5,000–12,000 contacts. The firm's master credential vault in a Word document called Woodywoody78!.docx (the filename is itself the vault password). Plaintext credentials for M&T Bank multi-identity business + commercial accounts (with electronic-payment-approval authority), Bank of America, Paychex, QuickBooks, and the firm's federal EIN. Plus the senior partner's phone-unlock PIN. A staff browser-exported password CSV (32 plaintext credentials) including the M365 tenant, the Slack tenant, hospital portals (MedStar, GBMC, Allstate secure mail), MoveDocs, ChartRequest, MSHC Legal portal — plus residual credentials from prior employers SLF Law and Bailey Law, creating cross-firm contamination liability. The Universal Licensing / Freedman Consulting invention-promotion operation — a second line of business under the same EIN, with hundreds of inventor folders. Per-inventor unpublished invention disclosures, “Internet Presentation of Invention” decks, NDAs, Exclusive Patent License Agreement drafts, patent-art renderings, and per-managed-mailbox client-company passwords. A criminal-defense sub-practice (“SLF criminal” out of Janice's working folder) with retainer agreements and per-client court documents, carrying 6th-Amendment-attorney–client uplift on the privileged-track scoring. An Axon evidence.com MPIA-released body-worn-camera package (449 MB total; a 448 MB clip from the 2020-12-20 Park Baltimore incident).
Leak Screenshots
SAMPLEProof-of-breach screenshots the operator posted from the stolen data. Previews are redacted and locked — the originals are available on HaveIBeenRansom.