A prominent Australian law firm is investigating claims hackers have published data taken from the company on the dark web.
HWL Ebsworth, which has clients at either commercial or government level in every state or territory, on June 9 said it had learned of the data release.
“Cyber criminals who accessed our systems have now claimed to have published around one third of the total data they say has been exfiltrated from our firm,” a company spokesman said.
“We are investigating this claim and are seeking to identify what data may have been published.”
It was reported in May by the Australian Financial Review that hackers claimed to have obtained client information and employee data from HWL Ebsworth….