Govt holds crisis talks over Russian cyber-attack on major law firm

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Govt holds crisis talks over Russian cyber-attack on major law firm
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The federal government is in crisis talks to determine what data has been stolen by Russian hackers after major law firm HWL Ebsworth was compromised in a cyber-attack.

The law firm has contracts across 40 government departments and agencies

including defence and foreign affairs, worth tens of millions of dollars.

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