When people think of legal movies, they usually think of Legally Blonde or My Cousin Vinny. But times are changing — they’d be better served if they thought about Blackhat. Attorney-client privilege does wonders when an adverse party wants to compel you to disclose information, but it doesn’t do much in the face of key loggers. Cyber attacks are a real threat to firm security, and even large firms like Quinn Emanuel need to be wary of them. From Reuters:
An electronic discovery vendor for U.S. law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan suffered a cybersecurity attack that may have exposed client information, the firm disclosed to California authorities on Friday.
Quinn Emanuel confirmed to Reuters on Monday that “a third-party data center we use for document management for some of our clients became the victim of a ransomware attack” last year. It said the attack was “limited to a small portion of our clients and matters.”