Legal Cheek reports:
Jones Day has become the latest high-profile law firm to fall victim to a cyber attack, after hackers accessed files linked to a number of client matters.
The US firm — which represented Donald Trump in both his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns and has placed several of its lawyers into senior White House and Justice Department roles — confirmed it had experienced a “phishing incident” in which “unauthorised third party accessed a limited number of dated files for 10 clients.”
All affected clients have been notified, though the firm declined to name either them or the specific files involved.
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DataBreaches.net, who posted a screenshot of the purported failed negotiations, reports that the threat actors were demanding $13 million to delete the data.
