{"id":8795,"date":"2021-07-20T10:20:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:33:35","slug":"law-firm-hit-by-ransomware-attack-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/law-firm-hit-by-ransomware-attack-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Firm Hit By Ransomware Attack In February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a statement released Friday, one of the world&#8217;s largest law firms, Campbell Conroy &amp; O&#8217;Neil, P.C., announced a major data breach that occurred after a ransomware attack on February 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation found that the hackers gained access to a database that contains personal information such as names, dates of birth, driver&#8217;s license\/government identification numbers, financial account information, passport numbers, payment information and social security numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law firm released a statement saying it discovered unusual activity on February 27 and soon realized it had been hit by a ransomware attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company contacted the FBI and cybersecurity companies for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone affected by the data breach, the firm will be offering 24 months of free credit monitoring, fraud counselling and identity theft recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/law-firm-for-ford-boeing-exxon-marriott-walgreens-and-more-hacked-in-ransomware-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law firms Campbell Conroy &#038; O&#8217;Neil, P.C., announced a major data breach that occurred after a ransomware attack on February 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}