Law Firm Partners Who Just Learned What The Internet Is Now Learning What ‘Hacking’ Is
I told you not to put these things so close to the elevator.
It has occurred to some people—the people who work at them, mostly—that law firms are pretty good places to pick up some sweet black edge. This has not always ended well for those people, but it has maybe given the hackingcommunity an idea for some new targets, because they’ve been poking around the systems of some pretty elite firms. Either that or they think, the whiter the shoe, the more susceptible to unsolicited white-power propaganda popping up on their printers. Luckily, Preet Bharara and his buddies at the FBI are on it.
The firms include Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, which represent Wall Street banks and Fortune 500 companies in everything from lawsuits to multibillion-dollar merger negotiations….
It isn’t clear what information the hackers stole, if any, but the focus of the investigation is on whether confidential data were taken for the purpose of insider trading, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Hackers Breach Law Firms, Including Cravath and Weil Gotshal [WSJ]
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