Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a recognized global law firm, is facing another lawsuit following a spring data breach that enabled unauthorized access to personal information of close to 153,000 people. The accessed data includes highly sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and birth dates.
This is now the second lawsuit that has ensued from the said breach, marking intensified scrutiny of data security measures of legal service providers. The lawsuit provided critical information that hackers managed to infiltrate the firm’s presumed secure computer systems on March 13, leading to the significant security incident. The complaint argues that the firm’s systems were not adequately protected, which resulted in the successful data breach.
The lawsuit, lodged in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, unsparingly notes that Orrick’s failure to safeguard its clients’ sensitive personal information led to this unfortunate occurrence. This, by extension, enabled cybercriminals to steal vital data, a situation that significantly puts at risk the persons whose data has been accessed. Here is a link to the full lawsuit.
Further details of the unfolding legal proceedings and the intrinsic ramifications for the global law firm and data security in the legal sector at large continue to develop.
For full details on this case, please refer to the original coverage from Bloomberg Law here.