Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-03-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: FBI investigates the breaches at two known law firms Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, and issues a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.