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Jones Day, one of the largest law firms in the country, has reported that its confidential client data, employee data, and internal communications were exposed by hackers in a data breach.
The law firm’s statement indicates that the data breach was the result of a cyberattack on third party vendor Accellion, a California based file transfer and service company. At least one other law firm reported that its confidential communications were exposed by the Accellion hack.
“Jones Day has been informed that Accellion’s FTA file transfer platform, which is a platform that Jones Day—like many law firms, companies and organizations—used was recently compromised and information taken,” David Petrou, a spokesperson for Jones Day, said in a statement provided to Bloomberg Law. “Jones Day continues to investigate the breach and has been, and will continue to be, in discussion with affected clients and appropriate authorities.”
Jones Day notes some major companies as clients, including Google, McDonald’s, Walmart, and JP Morgan Chase. The law firm’s gross revenue tops $2 billion a year and, according to Bloomberg Law, the firm had ties to former President Trump’s administration.
Accellion Data Breach Reveals Confidential Data
The Jones Day data breach is being blamed on a much larger exposure of Accellion that has also been linked to the hacking of another law firm, Goodwin Procter, according to a Feb. 2 announcement. The University of Colorado has also reportedly been affected by the breach.
In addition, Washington State officials say more than 1 million residents’ data was exposed in the same breach, including those seeking unemployment benefits. A class action lawsuit was reportedly filed by a Washington resident earlier this month in state Superior court claiming that the breach exposed his and others personal information, including their “name, social security number and/or driver’s license or state identification number, bank account number and bank routing number, and place of employment.”
On its website, Accellion contends that the company was the target of a “sophisticated cyberattack.” However some say the company simply failed to properly secure its data.
“Accellion has a track record of severe, readily-exploitable vulnerabilities in the FTA product,” Bob Dooling a security risk manager for health IT company Redox told Bloomberg Law, also noting that Facebook reportedly pulled out of the company’s services in 2016 after a single researcher successfully hacked the system.
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