A hacker claims to have stolen files from prominent law firm Jones Day, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
According to the Journal, the files were posted on the dark web and contained documents reviewed by the newspaper. One memo was allegedly addressed to a judge and marked as a ‘confidential mediation order’, while another was a cover letter for ‘confidential documents’.
According to the Journal, it could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the documents.
The hacker told the newspaper that they first came out to the law firm on February 3 to inform him that the network had been hacked, but it had not yet responded to it on Tuesday.
The violation of Jones’ Day was first reported on the cyber security blog DataBreaches.net on February 13th.
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The firm admitted to the Journal that the data was exposed, but attributed it to another cyber attack on the file transfer platform from Accellion FTA.
“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, has recently been harmed and information taken,” the law firm said in a statement. Bloomberg legislation.
“Jones Day continues to investigate the offense and has been, and will continue to be, in conversation with affected customers and relevant authorities,” the statement said.
The law firm did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.
Aksel first announced on February 1 that its file-sharing platform was the target of a sophisticated cyber attack.
“Accellion is conducting a full evaluation of the FTA data security incident with a leading corporate forensic cybersecurity firm,” Accellion spokesman Robert Dougherty said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday. ‘We will share more information once this review is complete. To protect it, we do not comment on specific customers. ”
However, the hacker told the Journal that they had directly violated Jones Day’s server and were not related to the Accellion hack. Bloomberg noted that Jones Day was the second firm in two weeks to say the data was exposed as part of the attack.