Security News > 2021 > June > UK Law Firm Gateley Discloses Data Breach

Based on the information collected by the company to date, it believes the impact of the incident was limited and the attackers only managed to access roughly 0.2% of its data.

Gateley admitted that the compromised data included some client information and the firm said it will notify impacted customers.

"The impacted data was traced quickly and deleted from the location to which it had been downloaded and there is no evidence currently to suggest that this data has been further disseminated," the company said in a regulatory news service announcement.

DataBreaches.net has speculated that this may have been a ransomware attack and the law firm paid the cybercriminals a ransom to get the stolen data removed from their leak website.

Gateley would not be the first major law firm to be hit by ransomware in the past year.

US-based law firm Jones Day also had some data stolen by cybercriminals known for conducting ransomware attacks, but the incident was related to a vulnerability in a now-retired file transfer service from Accellion and it did not actually involve ransomware.

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