A hacker claims to have stolen files from prominent Jones Day law firm, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday
The files were posted on the dark web, according to the Journal, and contain some documents that have been reviewed by the newspaper. One memo is reportedly addressed to a judge and marked as ‘confidential mediation letter’, while another is a cover letter for ‘confidential documents’.
The Journal reported that it could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the documents.
The hacker told the paper that they first contacted the law firm on Feb. 3 to let it know that the network had been hacked, but that it had not responded as of Tuesday.
The Jones Day breach was first reported on cybersecurity blog DataBreaches.net on February 13.
Jones Day, a large international law firm, has many high profile clients and has represented former ones President Trump
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The company acknowledged to the Journal that it had exposed data, 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, a platform that Jones Day – like many law firms, companies and organizations – used, has recently been compromised and information has been gathered, the law firm said in a statement. Bloomberg Law.
Jones Day continues to investigate the breach and is and will continue to engage with affected customers and competent authorities, the statement said.
The law firm did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.
Accellion first revealed on February 1 that its file-sharing platform was the target of an advanced cyber-attack.
“Accellion is conducting a full review of the FTA data security incident with a leading forensic cybersecurity company,” Accellion spokesman Robert Dougherty said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday. “We will share more information once this review is completed. For their protection, we do not comment on specific customers. “
However, the hacker told the Journal that they directly breached Jones Day’s server and were not associated with the Accellion hack. Bloomberg noted that Jones Day was the second company in two weeks to say it uncovered data as part of the attack.