Law Firm Data Breaches | Preparing and Defending Your Law Firm | Attorney at Work

In a 2021 Cybersecurity TechReport, the American Bar Association observed that law enforcement officials now divide businesses into two groups: those that have experienced a data breach and those that will. That was its way of underscoring the gravity of the risk law firms face concerning the theft, loss or destruction of sensitive client information stolen.

Flash-forward to the ABA’s most recent report, which finds that 27% of surveyed law firms were at some point laid wide open to a data breach after losing a smartphone, suffering a network break-in, falling prey to a website exploit, downloading a virus, being hit with a ransomware attack, or some other consequential mishap or misdeed.

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