A former employee of one of the best law firms in Australia has been referred to the police after a destructive e-mail with all persons has shot his top managers 'useless' and 'lazy'.
Slater + Gordon said it had 'reasonable grounds' to suspect the former employee who was aware of the company's security protocols and was previously authorized to gain access to certain data' in a statement on Tuesday.
The e -mail, which was sent to the 900 staff of the company, criticized the personality errors of the company's leaders, with detail about whom 'unfaithful', 'useless', 'a gossip' and 'lazy'.
At the E -mail was a spreadsheet with the salaries, bonuses and performance assessments of every current employee until November last year.
In the first major update of the company since the E -mails of 21 February, Chief Executive Dina Tutungi said that the outcome of the company's forensic investigation had been referred to the Victoria police.
The investigation confirmed that the incident was 'premeditated and carefully planned attack'.
The author is supposed to have had access to sensitive information, including private dinners at the house of Mrs. Tutungi, rivalry between employees, diseases who have been 'closed' this year about which board member this year.
Mrs Tutungi insured the staff that no information about her customers had leaked in the 'malicious' e -mail.
A former employee of one of the best law firms in Australia has been referred to the police after a destructive e-mail with all persons shot his top managers as 'useless' and 'lazy'
The forensic investigation showed that at least ten identical e-mails had been sent in a period of 16 minutes from 9.41 am on Friday 21 February in a clear attempt to circumvent the IT protocols of the company.
Slater + Gordon repeated his claim from the former Chief People Officer Mari Ruiz-Matthysen, whose name was attached to the e-mails, was not responsible for the incident.
An ex-employee whose name in the metadata of the Payroll spreadsheet was sent in the e-mail, said it was “painful” that people believed she was the author.
“Maybe someone made a profile on his own laptop and used my name to make that report, or if someone had manipulated the metadata, or someone used my old profile … to do it,” she told the Australian.
The woman pointed out that she was one of the employees who were included in the revelations on the E -mail.
“There is no way I would have put my name in it, I am very competent in Excel, I would not have done that,” she said.
In the statement released on Tuesday, the company said that it 'quickly' acted to conquer the consequences of the leak by, among other things, removing the E -mail from staff boxes within 90 minutes.
Nevertheless, it is assumed that the E -Mail was shared about 300 times internally and externally in the period before the access was limited.
Chief Executive Dina Tutungi (photo) said the case had been referred to the Victoria police
The company established in Melbourne said that the IT team and certain senior executives were excluded from the list of recipients in a clear attempt to support their distribution.
The company said that the E -mail contained a 'series of false and misleading claims'.
'This issue is still taken extremely seriously by Slater and Gordon, and we have referred the results of the forensic investigation to the Victoria police. We will continue to help the police with their work, said Mrs. Tutungi.
“Although this malignant incident was undesirable, our priority remains our people and the critical work that we do every day to give our customers access to justice.”
Victoria Police is contacted for comment.
More come.
