[HN Gopher] Law firm that handles data breaches was hit by data ...
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       Law firm that handles data breaches was hit by data breach
        
       Author : DyslexicAtheist
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-01-05 18:14 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (techcrunch.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com)
        
       | JoeAltmaier wrote:
       | Is this anything but a curiosity?
       | 
       | My friend who fixes cars after an accident had, you guessed it,
       | an accident.
       | 
       | Was his job supposed to make him immune?
        
         | mminer237 wrote:
         | One might think after seeing in detail how hundreds of other
         | data breaches occurred and adversely affected others, the firm
         | should have been uniquely well-educated and motivated to
         | prevent such attached.
        
           | jmclnx wrote:
           | You would think :)
           | 
           | But all this shows is once again, bonuses and short term
           | profits count far more than spending on competent cyber
           | security.
        
           | Khalos wrote:
           | Perhaps they were so successful at getting their clients
           | minimal punishments that they didn't see a need to
           | meaningfully invest in proper IT security compared to the
           | inevitable slap on the wrist.
        
           | karaterobot wrote:
           | No organization is immune from data breaches. That's pretty
           | much the first rule. All you can do is mitigate the risk, you
           | can't eliminate it. Being a law firm that handles data
           | breaches certainly doesn't make them unhackable, especially
           | if it makes them a target.
        
           | skeeter2020 wrote:
           | They're not a tech firm specializing in breach prevention,
           | but a law firm handling breach fall-out, aka the PR/comms
           | playbook. They probably know better than anyone that there's
           | zero liability, so why spend resources or worry about
           | preventing them?
        
         | bmelton wrote:
         | I don't think it would have made it to HN but for the
         | increasingly common expectation of behaving on HN exactly like
         | reddit
        
         | paulddraper wrote:
         | As surprising as an oncologist getting cancer.
        
       | tomknig wrote:
       | Well, they can handle that
        
       | wglb wrote:
       | Breach response is different from preventing breaches.
        
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