New Ransomware Attack Impacting CaseManagerPro Customers
In 2019 we wrote about a Ransomware attack that targeted two case management software companies: Needles and TrialWorks. According to quite a few firms we spoke with at the time, they lost access to both their client documents and case information. According to an article published in The Miami Herald, at least one law firm was “forced to request more time to meet a filing deadline in…federal court because it could not access its electronic documents”.[1] It took several weeks before the affected firms regained access to all of their client and firm data. SmartAdvocate has learned that another case management system, CaseManagerPro, has also recently been hit by a Ransomware attack. Although the system’s owner, Lucid IQ, has apparently managed to keep the attack out of the news for now, according to several of their customers we have spoken with, all of their firms’ data was deleted and all of their backups are gone as well. As of now, unless Lucid IQ agrees to pay the ransom, it appears…