Blank Rome faces two class action lawsuits after social engineering data breach exposes 57,000 clients
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Joe Patrice
Summary
Blank Rome, a major law firm, suffered a data breach after an attorney fell for a social engineering attack — a scammer posing as IT support called and convinced the attorney to upload client files to an external Google Drive. The breach exposed sensitive data of approximately 57,000 clients. Two class action lawsuits were filed in response, and the FBI had previously warned law firms about this exact type of scam.
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bskyBlank Rome faces two class action lawsuits after social engineering data breach exposes 57,000 clientsabovethelaw.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledSomeone picked up a phone on May 21, called a Blank Rome attorney, said some version of 'hi, this is IT,' and asked them to upload the client files to an external Google Drive.
And then they just… did that.
The FBI warned law firms about this exact scam.
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