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Tarrant Appraisal District extends protest deadline after ransomware attack

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Disagree with the Tarrant Appraisal District’s valuation of your residential property? You now have until May 24 to protest it.

District officials extended the deadline from May 15 after a ransomware attack at the end of March forced systems offline, delaying access to its online protest tool in the process. The group responsible for the attack, Medusa, posted taxpayer information online after the district refused to pay the ransom. Since then, the appraisal district’s essential services are back online and the board approved new funding for cybersecurity measures.

The new deadline allows residents 30 days from the time the online protest function was restored to challenge an appraisal. People can access the online protest function by logging in, heading to their dashboard and clicking the protest button on the left-hand side of the screen.

There are multiple reasons residents can protest, including concerns about incorrect valuations, tax exemptions being denied and incorrect owner or property information. The protests will be considered by the appraisal review board, which schedules hearings to review evidence and determine whether the district erred in its appraisal decision.

Commercial appraisal notices are expected to be mailed May 1, and the deadline to protest these appraisals is May 31 or 30 days from the mailing date, whichever is later.

Before then, voters will head to the polls May 4 to elect three at-large appraisal district board members. Board members do not determine protests or property appraisals.

Emily Wolf is a government accountability reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact her at [email protected]At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here.

This article first appeared on Fort Worth Report and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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Deadline looms for Allen & Overy’s ransomware payment

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Ian usually just told lawyers to switch it off and switch it on again.

Allen & Overy has until Tuesday to pay off a gang of cybercriminals or they will release a cache of files stolen from the firm, the hackers have said.

Three weeks ago the LockBit ransomware group announced that it had added the Magic Circle to its long list of victims, which includes Accenture and the Ministry of Defence, and that A&O had until 28 November to pay up.

LockBit originated in countries which belonged to the former Soviet Union and operates as a franchise, providing its software and negotiation framework to affiliates in exchange for a proportion of the ransoms they extort.

Recently the LockBit high table ordered its affiliates to hike the amounts they demand from victims after reportedly being disappointed with the size of ransom payments.

For organisations with revenues upwards of $1 billion, a ransom equating to 0.1% to 3% of the total should be sought, according to a cyberthreat analyst’s report on the gang’s new rates.

That didn’t pan out when an offshoot attempted to extort £66m from Royal Mail. Demands for a sum equivalent to 0.5% of the company’s global revenue faltered when Royal Mail’s negotiator argued that LockBit had actually hacked a loss-making subsidiary of the Plc, Royal Mail International, and that “under no circumstances” would it pay “the absurd amount of money” LockBit had demanded.

On top of which, said Royal Mail’s negotiator, what damage the hack could do had already been done, having triggered a breakdown of the company’s ability to make international deliveries.

Allen & Overy’s revenues were £2.1 billion in 2022, which means if the gang is operating in line with LockBit’s edicts, the firm could currently be attempting to argue down a number between £2.1m and £10.5m.

A&O declined to specify how much the criminals were demanding and whether it was engaging with them, referring RollOnFriday to its statement at the time of the attack when it said it had “experienced a data incident impacting a small number of storage servers”.

LockBit’s ransomware can enter a network via phishing, where an employee receives an email requesting access details which appears…

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ROSEN, GLOBAL INVESTOR COUNSEL, Encourages International Business Machines Corporation to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline in Securities Class Action Filed by the Firm – IBM

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New York, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – January 28, 2023) – WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of International Business Machines Corporation IBM between January 18, 2018 and October 16, 2018, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”) of the important March 14, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.

SO WHAT: If you invested in IBM securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.

WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the IBM class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5104 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] or [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 14, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.

WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs’ Bar. Many of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super…

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ROSEN, A TOP RANKED LAW FIRM, Encourages International Business Machines Corporation Investors with Losses Exceeding $100K to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline in Securities Class Action – IBM | News

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NEW YORK, May 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ —

WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) between April 4, 2017 and October 20, 2021, inclusive (the “Class Period”), of the important June 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.

SO WHAT: If you purchased IBM securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.

WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the IBM class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5104 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] or [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.

WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs’ Bar. Many of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super…

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