How Attorneys Get Hacked (And What You Can Do About It)

"We hacked your web site and got client data," Brett said. It was the phone call no attorney wants to receive. The good news for this firm was that we were penetration testers, hackers for hire, and our job was to find vulnerabilities before the attackers did. In this case, our client was one of the biggest law firms in the world. Brett found that with an attack on the firm’s web portal, he could download client billing information, confidential case notes, usernames and passwords for every client in their database–and so could any attacker in the world.

Attorneys are increasingly targeted by cyber attackers. However, "few law firms will admit publicly to a breach," reports Jennifer Smith of the Wall Street Journal1. "Thefts of confidential information strike at the core of the legal profession’s obligation to safeguard clients’ secrets, and can do considerable harm to a firm’s reputation."

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