{"id":163504,"date":"2026-09-24T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/24\/biglaw-firm-claims-employee-was-deceived-into-sending-client-documents-to-hacker\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:42:23","slug":"biglaw-firm-claims-employee-was-deceived-into-sending-client-documents-to-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/24\/biglaw-firm-claims-employee-was-deceived-into-sending-client-documents-to-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Firm Claims Employee Was \u2018Deceived\u2019 Into Sending Client Documents To Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day, another law firm data breach. Just days after Greenberg Traurig was hit with proposed class actions<\/a> over its own cybersecurity incident, Seyfarth Shaw has disclosed that a \u201ctargeted social engineering attack\u201d exposed client documents containing personal information.<\/p>\n

As reported by Reuters<\/a>, someone impersonating a member of Seyfarth\u2019s IT help desk \u201cdeceived\u201d an employee into emailing \u201ca limited number of client documents to an unauthorized outside account.\u201d The compromised information included names and Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n

The firm says the incident was isolated to a single employee and that its security controls prevented the attacker from gaining access to its network or systems. Seyfarth has reported the breach to officials in Texas and California.<\/p>\n

Cyber incidents involving law firms are piling up at an alarming rate. Seyfarth now joins Greenberg Traurig, Quinn Emanuel, McDermott, Goodwin Procter, and HSF Kramer among the major firms to disclose breaches in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

At this point, hackers don\u2019t need to break into a law firm\u2019s computer systems when they can simply convince an employee to send the confidential documents themselves. Unfortunately, sometimes the easiest system to hack is a human being\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n

Law firm Seyfarth says breach exposed client documents<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Firm Claims Employee Was \u2018Deceived\u2019 Into Sending Client Documents To Hacker<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another day, another law firm data breach. Just days after Greenberg Traurig was hit with proposed class actions<\/a> over its own cybersecurity incident, Seyfarth Shaw has disclosed that a \u201ctargeted social engineering attack\u201d exposed client documents containing personal information.<\/p>\n

As reported by Reuters<\/a>, someone impersonating a member of Seyfarth\u2019s IT help desk \u201cdeceived\u201d an employee into emailing \u201ca limited number of client documents to an unauthorized outside account.\u201d The compromised information included names and Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n

The firm says the incident was isolated to a single employee and that its security controls prevented the attacker from gaining access to its network or systems. Seyfarth has reported the breach to officials in Texas and California.<\/p>\n

Cyber incidents involving law firms are piling up at an alarming rate. Seyfarth now joins Greenberg Traurig, Quinn Emanuel, McDermott, Goodwin Procter, and HSF Kramer among the major firms to disclose breaches in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

At this point, hackers don\u2019t need to break into a law firm\u2019s computer systems when they can simply convince an employee to send the confidential documents themselves. Unfortunately, sometimes the easiest system to hack is a human being\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n

Law firm Seyfarth says breach exposed client documents<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another day, another law firm data breach. Just days after Greenberg Traurig was hit with proposed class actions over its own cybersecurity incident, Seyfarth Shaw has disclosed that a \u201ctargeted social engineering attack\u201d exposed client documents containing personal information. As reported by Reuters, someone impersonating a member of Seyfarth\u2019s IT help desk \u201cdeceived\u201d an employee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}