{"id":5644,"date":"2018-10-29T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=516720"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:32:57","slug":"biglaw-firm-hit-with-cybersecurity-incident-earlier-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2018\/10\/29\/biglaw-firm-hit-with-cybersecurity-incident-earlier-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Firm Hit With Cybersecurity Incident Earlier This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A new report<\/a> by Bloomberg Law reveals that the Biglaw firm of Foley & Lardner was hit by a cybersecurity incident earlier this month. Though a spokesperson for the firm declined to specify the nature of the security event, they did note that client data was not breached during the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike many other organizations in this increasingly digital world, earlier this month we incurred a cyber event that caused a disruption to our IT systems,\u201d Jill Schachner Chanen, external communications manager at Foley & Lardner, told Bloomberg Law Oct. 26 in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have security safeguards in place designed to protect our systems and data and have confirmed no unauthorized access to client data,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biglaw firms are charged with maintaining their clients’ data in the strictest of confidence, so it’s no surprise that Chanen’s statement focused on that aspect of the breach. She also noted that keeping confidential data safe from cuber threats will \u201ccontinue to be our highest priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

From this initial information, it seems Foley & Lardner faired much better than other Biglaw firms when it comes to cybersecurity. Last year mega firm DLA Piper found themselves “paralyzed”<\/a> by a ransomware attack, and law firms continue to be vulnerable to other cyber threats — a fact even 15-year olds know.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"headshot\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast.<\/a> AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a>\u00a0with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1<\/a>).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The firm says no client data was breached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":949,"featured_media":476918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[102,258,3575,3576,7],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biglaw","tag-biglaw","tag-cybersecurity","tag-foley-lardner","tag-jill-schachner-chanen","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBiglaw Firm Hit With Cybersecurity Incident Earlier This Month - Above The Law's Legal Tech Non-Event<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2018\/10\/29\/biglaw-firm-hit-with-cybersecurity-incident-earlier-this-month\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biglaw Firm Hit With Cybersecurity Incident Earlier This Month - 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