Law Offices of Michael A. Freedman, P.A. (

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 Per-inventor unpublished invention disclosures, “Internet Presentation of Invention” decks, NDAs, Exclusive Patent License Agreement drafts, patent-art renderings, a