Major law firms fall victim to cyber attacks, Jeff Gray, the globe and mail
In the past seven months, computer hackers have penetrated four major bay street law firms. Their goal was to use these highly sophisticated attacks to gather or destroy sensitive data relating to independent mergers and acquisitions. Daniel Tobok, the investigator, says the attack seem to have come from computers in China. He says the hackers were "harvesting" information, and weather or not they got any sensitive information is hard to tell, but they for sure got into the system. The firms had recently been working with a Chinese company, when an e-mail came in from what seemed to be a worker from this company. The e-mail had an attachment which opened a never before seen program in the firms system. Earlier this year, other Canadian companies had been hacked, including Goggle inc., but the Chinese government says that have no involvement with any of this.
I believe that the Chinese government hasn't had anything to do with this, but it is probably some minor corporation or group who has immense technology experience and have been hacking into these systems to see how far they can go and how powerful they truly are. This is because they have a big or final goal which they will actually do damage once they are into the system. If I were the companies or firms who they have hacked, i wouldn't worry too much because if they haven't already destroyed your system, they probably wont do much damage. This doesn't mean you shouldn't still be on the lookout and shouldn't look over your security system after this passes.
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