On April 21, 2025, the Whitley Law Firm in North Carolina appeared on the leak site of the qilin ransomware group. The attackers claim they have exfiltrated internal files belonging to a law office that has served roughly 2,800 clients over the past decade. They have set a publication deadline of 5-7 May 2025 unless their demands are met.
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What Public Reporting Shows
Public reporting indicates the firm’s entire client-matter database and related internal documents were taken. The qilin group posted proof of the breach on their dark-web leak portal, listing Whitley Law Firm by name and describing the volume of data as covering ten years of legal work. No exact count of exposed individuals has been released, but the firm’s own description of its practice suggests thousands of personal injury, accident, and civil clients whose names, contact details, case notes, medical records, and financial information are likely included.
The attackers have given the firm until early May to respond before the files are released publicly. Ransomware.live, which tracks such incidents, mirrors the listing and states the group’s standard countdown format.
Why This Matters for You and Your Family
If you or anyone in your family worked with Whitley Law Firm in the last ten years, your private information may soon be available to anyone who visits the leak site. Medical records, insurance details, home addresses, phone numbers, email accounts, and financial summaries are the kinds of data that appear in typical law-firm exfiltrations. Once posted, that information rarely disappears.