Proskauer Rose, a global law company with its headquarters in New York City, exposed private client information for more than six months as a result of a security lapse, TechCrunch has learnt.
Data from Proskauer’s merger and acquisitions practise was left on an insecure Microsoft Azure cloud server, a source with knowledge of the situation told TechCrunch.
According to the source, TechCrunch was able to retrieve a fraction of the exposed dataset, which had roughly 184,000 files in total. Anyone who knew where to search could access these files via a web browser, and they contained confidential and privileged financial and legal documents read more Legal powerhouse Proskauer exposed clients’ confidential M&A data.
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