A group of hackers REvil hacked the computer system of the company Meiselas Grubman Shire & Sacks, one of the leading law firms in the world dealing with stars of show business, famous actors and athletes. Now the site is not working and the hackers are threatening to begin to publish the personal data of hundreds of stellar customer Meiselas Grubman Shire & Sacks, if the firm does not pay them a ransom.Firm Meiselas Grubman Shire & Sacks is well-known in the legal world and in the world stars of show business: a list of her clients shines is not weaker than “Avenue of stars” in Hollywood. However, as the BBC reports, data contracts, and agreements entered into by its customers and their personal data, which until now was known only to the firm can become public knowledge. A group of hackers REvil — also known as Sodinokibi by malware name, which it uses for its attacks, produced a large-scale hacking Meiselas Grubman Shire & Sacks.In the database Meiselas Grubman Shire & Sacks stored personal customer data, including addresses, contacts, personal correspondence, and legal documentation: contracts, contracts for appearances, events, etc., the Total volume stored in this database is 756 GB.Hackers demand that the company repurchase, the amount of which is not disclosed. Otherwise, they will begin to publish the stolen data. To confirm that they really have something serious, they put out Dark Web data associated with the recent tour Madonna — Madame X. According to the company’s cyber security Emsisoft on posted online screenshots no personal or financial information about the contract of the Madonna on this tour, but there is a signature of one employee and a representative of the company-organizer Live Nation. In addition, the hackers posted a screenshot with the list of folders in which to store their clients ‘ documents.The website of the company after the attack does not work. In a press release, the firm confirmed that it had been hacked. “We have notified our customers and employees. We have invited world-class experts specialized in this area and we are working tirelessly to solve the problem,”— said in a statement Meiselas Grubman Shire & Sacks.This is not the first major cyber attack REvil for the last time. On 31 December they broke into the international system of remittances Travelex, encrypted data on computers and demanded a ransom of $3 million for the restoration of data. The company could not work more than two weeks that a serious blow to her clients. All the work was recovered only in the spring. And later it became known that Travelex has paid to extortioners $2.3 million in bitcoin for data recovery.Alena Miklashevskaya
