{"id":11895,"date":"2023-10-19T05:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/some-people-whose-personal-data-stolen-in-hwl-ebsworth-hack-not-told-for-six-months\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T05:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:37:21","slug":"some-people-whose-personal-data-stolen-in-hwl-ebsworth-hack-not-told-for-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/some-people-whose-personal-data-stolen-in-hwl-ebsworth-hack-not-told-for-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people whose personal data stolen in HWL Ebsworth hack not told for six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law firm says \u2018complex manual review\u2019 needed to assess what information was involved and to identify those affected<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some people who have had dealings with Australia\u2019s privacy regulator were only informed this week that their personal information, including banking data, was caught up in the hack of the law firm HWL Ebsworth.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian-linked ransomware group ALPHV\/BlackCat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/02\/australian-law-firm-hwl-ebsworth-hit-by-russian-linked-ransomware-attack\">hacked the law firm in April<\/a>. In September the group published on the dark web 1.1TB of the data it claimed to have stolen \u2013 later established to be 3.6TB.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/19\/some-people-whose-personal-data-stolen-in-hwl-ebsworth-hack-not-told-for-six-months\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8b895f79a19e16aced6ca071f7968af21f733dac\/1244_683_3287_1972\/master\/3287.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c08c76251b902956e9c5ea7177bf22e2\" title=\"Some people whose personal data stolen in HWL Ebsworth hack not told for six months\" \/>Law firm says \u2018complex manual review\u2019 needed to assess what information was involved and to identify those affected<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nSome people who have had dealings with Australia\u2019s privacy regulator were only informed this week that their personal information, including banking data, was caught up in the hack of the law firm HWL Ebsworth.<br \/>\nThe Russian-linked ransomware group ALPHV\/BlackCat hacked the law firm in April. In September the group published on the dark web 1.1TB of the data it claimed to have stolen \u2013 later established to be 3.6TB. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law firm says \u2018complex manual review\u2019 needed to assess what information was involved and to identify those affected Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Some people who have had dealings with Australia\u2019s privacy regulator were only informed this week that their personal information, including banking data, was caught &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/some-people-whose-personal-data-stolen-in-hwl-ebsworth-hack-not-told-for-six-months\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some people whose personal data stolen in HWL Ebsworth hack not told for six months<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}