Staff at major law firm tricked into sending client documents to hackers
An employee at a major law firm sent client documents to a hacker. The firm explained that the employee was tricked into sending the documents, and the firm's name, the scale of damage, when it happened and the response measures have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Client documents
- Cause / method
- Employee tricked into sending client documents
- Location
- Other countries
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Timeline
- A major law firm said an employee was tricked into sending client documents to a hacker.
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