Yesterday, Comparitech reported that US Claims Capital, a legal financial services company, confirmed this week that it notified 25,722 people of a January 2025 data breach that compromised their personal and health information. This attack has been claimed by LeakedData.
In a blog post, Paul Bischoff, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Comparitech, wrote:
“LeakedData is a relatively new ransomware group that first surfaced in December 2024. It mostly targets US financial and legal businesses. It’s not clear where the group is from or what its motivations are.”
“LeakedData claimed responsibility for eight confirmed ransomware attacks since it began, compromising about 72,500 records. This attack on USClaims is the group’s largest so far by number of records affected. The group has made another 58 unconfirmed claims that haven’t been acknowledged by the targeted organizations.”
“Comparitech researchers have logged five confirmed ransomware attacks on US financial businesses in 2025 so far, following 66 attacks in 2024. This year’s attacks have compromised 77,626 records, while last year’s totaled 35.8 million. The average ransom demand is just north of $1 million.”
This is perhaps a sign that ransomware attacks are either completely out of control or close to that point. I say that because this is yet another group of threat actors that defenders will need to monitor. And the fact that they’re new suggests that they are getting into the ransomware game because there’s money to be made. And that is bad for all of us.
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USClaims notifies 25K+ people of data breach claimed by ransomware gang
Yesterday, Comparitech reported that US Claims Capital, a legal financial services company, confirmed this week that it notified 25,722 people of a January 2025 data breach that compromised their personal and health information. This attack has been claimed by LeakedData.
In a blog post, Paul Bischoff, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Comparitech, wrote:
“LeakedData is a relatively new ransomware group that first surfaced in December 2024. It mostly targets US financial and legal businesses. It’s not clear where the group is from or what its motivations are.”
“LeakedData claimed responsibility for eight confirmed ransomware attacks since it began, compromising about 72,500 records. This attack on USClaims is the group’s largest so far by number of records affected. The group has made another 58 unconfirmed claims that haven’t been acknowledged by the targeted organizations.”
“Comparitech researchers have logged five confirmed ransomware attacks on US financial businesses in 2025 so far, following 66 attacks in 2024. This year’s attacks have compromised 77,626 records, while last year’s totaled 35.8 million. The average ransom demand is just north of $1 million.”
This is perhaps a sign that ransomware attacks are either completely out of control or close to that point. I say that because this is yet another group of threat actors that defenders will need to monitor. And the fact that they’re new suggests that they are getting into the ransomware game because there’s money to be made. And that is bad for all of us.
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