Security News > 2023 > June > BlackCat ransomware fails to extort Australian commercial law giant
Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth confirmed to local media outlets that its network was hacked after the ALPHV ransomware gang began leaking data they claim was stolen from the company.
HWL Ebsworth is one of Australia's largest law firms, with an annual revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars, employing over 2,000 people and operating nine offices nationwide.
Last night, the ALPHV ransomware gang, also known as BlackCat, published 1.45 terabytes of data containing over a million documents allegedly stolen from the law firm's systems in April 2023.
Because the law firm naturally had business with the public sector, too, there are worries about the leaked documents containing sensitive or confidential information relating to matters of the state.
ABC lists the ANZ banking group, the South Australian, Queensland, and ACT governments, the Environment and Human Services Department, and the Australian Taxation Office as current or former clients of HWL Ebsworth and potentially impacted by this incident.
BleepingComputer has contacted HWL Ebsworth requesting a comment on the status of its operations and the progress of its internal investigation on the validity of the leaked data, but we have yet to hear back.