A hacker claims to have stolen files from the prominent law firm Jones Day, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
According to the newspaper, the files were posted on the dark network and included some documents that the newspaper reviewed. According to reports, one note was addressed to a judge and marked as a “confidential mediation brief,” while another is a cover letter for “confidential documents.”
The newspaper reported that it could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the documents.
The news pirate told the newspaper that they first contacted the firm on Feb. 3 to inform him that his network had been hacked, but had not responded since Tuesday.
Jones Day rape was first reported on the cybersecurity blog DataBreaches.net on February 13th.
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The firm acknowledged to the Journal that it had data exposed, but attributed it to another cyber attack on Accellion FTA’s file transfer platform.
“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 recently was committed and information was taken.” said the buffet in a statement Bloomberg Law.
“Jones Day continues to investigate the breach and has been, and will continue to be, in discussion with affected customers and competent authorities,” the statement said.
The law firm did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.
Acceleration first disclosed on February 1, its file-sharing platform was the target of a sophisticated cyberattack.
“Accellion is conducting a full assessment of the FTA data security incident with a leading forensic company in the cybersecurity industry,” Accellion spokesman Robert Dougherty said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday. “We will share more information once this evaluation is completed. To protect them, we do not comment on specific customers. “
However, the hacker told the Journal that they directly infringed on Jones Day’s server and were not associated with the pirate Accellion. Bloomberg noted that Jones Day was the second company in two weeks to say it had data exposed as part of the attack.