Security News > 2023 > November > Cyberattack on IT provider CTS impacts dozens of UK law firms
A cyberattack on CTS, a leading managed service provider for law firms and other organizations in the UK legal sector, is behind a major outage impacting numerous law firms and home buyers in the country since Wednesday.
"We are experiencing a service outage which has impacted a portion of the services we deliver to some of our clients. The outage was caused by a cyber-incident," the UK IT services provider said in a statement published on Friday.
Local media reports that between 80 and 200 law firms could have been affected based on estimates shared by CTS clients.
O'Neil Patient, one of CTS' clients, told Property Industry Eye that the outage "Is impacting a number of organisations across the sector, as our provider is a specialist in secure legal systems for many law firms and barrister's chambers."
As an MSP, CTS also provides cyber protection services, including cyberattack detection and response, email and network security, and employee security awareness training.
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