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A third of large law firms hacked

Large law firms, though commonly perceived to have stringent cybersecurity procedures in place due to large in-house Information Technology staff and devoted legal IT budgets, are in fact more vulnerable to cyber-attacks than smaller ones, with one in three the target of a cyber-attack over the past year, according to a legal benchmarking report on law firms from the United Kingdom.

The report by NatWest reveals that 24 per cent of all U.K. law firms suffered a cyber-attack over the past year, 16 per cent of whom were small firms (generating fees of less than $3.75 million), 31 per cent large ones (generating fees between $3.75 million and $8.3 million), and 28 per cent very large firms (generating over $8.3 million in fees).