The third-party service provider is identified by the Office of the Washing State Auditor (AOC), Pat McCarthy, to be Accellion, a private cloud solutions company that is based in Palo Alto, California. The attack was said to be originating back to December 25, 2020, where unauthorized access to the systems was detected. The country's capital state was hit by an attack that has compromised several of its data and information that exposes its citizen's identity, and have taken advantage of the third-party service provider's software vulnerability. Capitol Police acting Chief Yogananda Pittman said a permanent perimeter fence should be built, among other recommendations. Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters that left five people dead and scores injured. The fence was built following the January 6 attack on the U.S. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: An eight-foot tall steel fence topped with concertina razor wire circles the U.S. If one of the products used by an organization is exploited, it opens up the organization to breaches as well.(Photo : Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) "Jones Day continues to investigate the breach and has been, and will continue to be, in discussion with affected clients and appropriate authorities.”Įmsisoft’s Brett Callow said that if Clop was behind the data breach on Accellion, then the hacker could have access to data belonging to the vendor's clients, which include the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Singtel, Washington State and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.Ĭommenting on the Accellion data breach, Lamar Bailey, senior director of security research at Tripwire, told Infosecurity Magazine: “The old saying a chain is only as strong as its weakest link also holds true for today’s extensive supply chains. "Jones Day has been informed that Accellion’s FTA file transfer platform, which is a platform that Jones Day-like many law firms, companies and organizations-used, was recently compromised and information taken. Nor has Jones Day been the subject of a ransomware attack. In a statement released February 16, Jones Day said: “Jones Day’s network has not been breached. The law firm, whose clients include Alphabet Inc.’s Google, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Walmart Inc., President Donald Trump, Procter & Gamble Co., and McDonald’s Corp., is the tenth largest in the country.Ĭlop claimed to have received no response from Jones Day after contacting them about handing over the files in exchange for a ransom. When contacted by the WSJ, Clop claimed to be in possession of more than 100 gigabytes of data belonging to Jones Day. Among the documents are a cover letter for “confidential documents” and a memo addressed to a judge that has been labeled as a “confidential mediation brief." The Wall Street Journal reports that a hacker known as Clop has leaked some documents online that they claim have been stolen from Jones Day. American legal giant Jones Day says its computer network has not been compromised following a cyber-attack on the firm's file-transfer vendor Accellion.Īccellion's 20-year-old FTA (Files Transfer Appliance) file-transfer platform was "the target of a sophisticated cyberattack," according to a statement issued by the company on February 1.
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