The State Bar Association of North Dakota Winter 2015 Gavel Magazine | Page 24

CYBERSECURITY FOR LAWYERS PART I: AN INTRODUCTION

States law firm. The agents related their
discovery of “many” of the law firm’s files on
computer servers outside the United States,
and indicated it was likely all of the firm’s
electronic files had been compromised.2
When the agents requested notification
before the law firm went public with a
disclosure, the managing partner reportedly
responded, “Go public? I’m not even going
to tell my partners!”

JUSTICE DANIEL CROTHERS
North Dakota Supreme Court
Sony Pictures, Target and Home Depot
lost valuable electronically stored data to
computer hackers. Hackers have infiltrated
the computer systems of the nation’s
largest banks, all varieties of private
companies and large public institutions.
Just recently, the United States Central
Command suspended its Twitter page
after a group declaring sympathy for
Islamic State jihadists hacked its social
media accounts and posted internal
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