Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-01-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Goodwin Procter
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: FIN11
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Goodwin Procter experienced an indirect security breach involving Accellion, a firewall vendor, whose services the firm uses for large file transfers.