{"id":255455,"date":"2026-01-28T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/255455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:50:08","slug":"langley-twigg-law-cyber-attack-under-investigation-after-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/255455\/","title":{"rendered":"Langley Twigg Law cyber attack under investigation after data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

It said it\u2019s working to understand exactly what information was leaked, and will then contact affected clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working intensively on this process but please understand that this may take some time to work through. We will provide further updates as our investigation progresses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The firm says it\u2019s contacted the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the police.<\/p>\n

The police are investigating.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely sorry that this has happened,\u201d the firm said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working hard to identify whose personal information may have been compromised<\/a> and ensure that those affected receive appropriate notifications.\u201d<\/p>\n

The firm said it had taken immediate steps once it was alerted to the attack on January 11, including switching off and disconnecting the IT network from the internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time of the attack, we were in the process of moving to a cloud-based document management system; this process will be completed shortly and will reduce the risk of any future incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

It advised clients to \u201cbe extra vigilant\u201d and keep an \u201cespecially keen eye\u201d on bank account and credit card transactions, as well as to stay alert to suspicious messages.<\/p>\n

Langley Twigg law has been approached for further comment, as well as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.<\/p>\n

-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It said it\u2019s working to understand exactly what information was leaked, and will then contact affected clients. \u201cWe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,89,4378,138,4373,3105,22191,12898,147624,8307,111,139,69,39995,94216,8238],"class_list":["post-255455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-breach","tag-business","tag-cyber","tag-data","tag-ellen","tag-investigation","tag-langley","tag-law","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odwyer","tag-twigg","tag-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}