JONES DAY HACKED (AGAIN)– And Why Are We Even Surprised Anymore?

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Hire #biglaw, expect a big loss– of data, apparently.

#Biglaw firms are notoriously easy for hackers to infiltrate given their fractured management and compensation models that encourage individual partners to operate as min-fiefdoms.

This is theoretically fine but if even one r two groups in an organization with thousands of attorneys is asleep at the switch hackers can obtain MASSIVE amounts of information. Very dangerous stuff.

Well Jones Day apparently just got hacked and a bunch of client data sets were accessed or taken–which is nuts.

Jones Day, of course, is the same firm that just entered into that ruinous $28MM Sirius XM TCPA settlement I have dubbed the worst TCPA settlement in history– so I guess I’m not surprised their data protection privacies aren’t the best.

Can’t litigate. Can’t protect data.

Not looking good for old Jones Day right now.

According to the folks at Reuters this isn’t even the first time Jones Day has been hacked and lost access to client data: “Jones Day said in 2021 that it was among companies affected by the hack of a file-transfer program by a group ​known as Clop.”

Eesh. Just wild.

Have no idea why any company would trust their data to Jones Day or any #biglaw firm given the track record here.

But onward and upward!

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Published by Eric "Czar" Troutman

The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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  1. The firm lists Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection as one of its practice areas. That cannot be a good look for the partners in that practice group. Yikes!!

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