Law Firm Representing Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Others Suffers Major Data Breach

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https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/entertainment-law-firm-hacked-data-breach-lady-gaga-madonna-bruce-springsteen-1234602737/

By Todd Spangler, Shirley Halperin
Variety.com
May 9, 2020

Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, a large media and entertainment law firm, 
appears to have been the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of 
an enormous batch of private information on dozens of celebrities, according to 
a data security researcher.

The trove of data allegedly stolen from the New York-based firm by hackers — a 
total of 756 gigabytes — includes contracts, nondisclosure agreements, phone 
numbers and email addresses, and “personal correspondence,” according to an 
image of the hackers’ post provided to Variety by Emsisoft, a cybersecurity 
software and consulting company specializing in ransomware.

The documents purportedly include information about multiple music and 
entertainment figures, including: Lady Gaga, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Bruce 
Springsteen, Mary J. Blige, Ella Mai, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Cam 
Newton, Bette Midler, Jessica Simpson, Priyanka Chopra, Idina Menzel, HBO’s 
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” and Run DMC. Facebook also is on the 
hackers’ hit list.

Representatives for Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks did not respond to Variety‘s 
requests for comment Friday. As of Saturday morning, the firm’s website 
(gsmlaw.com) was effectively offline, displaying only its logo.

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