Many attorneys appear to request financial documents (tax returns, pay statements, bank and retirement account statements, etc) via e-mail.
They use hotmail, gmail, yahoo, aol, etc email accounts to receive these documents.
If anyone should hack into their (attorney) email account, the availability of those documents poses a serious identity theft issue for their clients. And I doubt an attorney would ever know someone hacked into his email account and copied all his documents and logged out.
Google the issue of hacked email accounts, and you will see many people trying to get their accounts back; but that's only obvious if the hacker changed the password. Most hackers who go after financial info may choose to leave the account the way they found it, to not raise any suspicions that the account was compromised.
Banks and other financial institutions go to great lengths to protect financial information. What steps does the Legal community take in protecting those documents of their clients?
They use hotmail, gmail, yahoo, aol, etc email accounts to receive these documents.
If anyone should hack into their (attorney) email account, the availability of those documents poses a serious identity theft issue for their clients. And I doubt an attorney would ever know someone hacked into his email account and copied all his documents and logged out.
Google the issue of hacked email accounts, and you will see many people trying to get their accounts back; but that's only obvious if the hacker changed the password. Most hackers who go after financial info may choose to leave the account the way they found it, to not raise any suspicions that the account was compromised.
Banks and other financial institutions go to great lengths to protect financial information. What steps does the Legal community take in protecting those documents of their clients?