Pittsburgh - site of offices for K&L Gates and corporations including Starbucks and Halliburton - is heavily focused on the dangers of cyber crime. Patrick Fallon Jr, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office, said: ‘Law firms are a rich target. They don't have the capabilities and the resources to protect themselves. Within their systems are a lot of the sensitive information from the corporations that they represent. And, therefore, it's a vulnerability that the bad guys are trying to exploit, and are exploiting.’ 

Chinese military hackers

Pittsburgh-based federal prosecutors charged Chinese military hackers with hacking client-lawyer communications this year, relating to Oregon-based solar panel company SolarWorld. K&L Gates, whose head office is in Pittsburgh, says that its client data has not been ‘compromised or extracted from our IT system’. Source: TRIB LIVE