A Member-Firm with firm with multiple offices became the victim of foreign hacking enterprise. When an employee of the firm opened an email from an unsuspected contact, and clicked on a link, the hackers reached the Firm’s management systems, and had control to all the files and everything related to their operations. The firm had to pay a very large amount of money as a ransom and updated their computers and software, at additional expense.
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