United Kingdom
GBR
Simplify cyberattack stalls UK property transactions across conveyancing brands
A November 7 security intrusion into shared Simplify IT systems disrupted conveyancing case-management services used by Premier Property Lawyers, DC Law, JS Law and other group businesses. Property completions stalled, clients encountered transaction delays and the company later disclosed reduced intake of new cases for roughly ten weeks.
82
Estimated severity
82 / 100
93
Source reliability
93 / 100
Approximate Date
2021-11-07
Targeted Company
SIMPLIFY
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
United Kingdom
Affected countries
United Kingdom
Impacted regions
No information
Operational Impact
Duration
No information
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Downstream customer disruptionOperational disruptionService degradationService unavailability
Affected sectors
Professional & Business ServicesReal Estate & Commercial Facilities
Affected departments
Customer ServiceInformation Technology
Attack Profile
Attack types
Unauthorized access
Attributed threat actors
No information
Sources
Incident Sources
lawgazette.co.ukhttps://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/criminal-investigation-opened-on-outage-that-caused-conveyancing-chaos/5110603.articlelawgazette.co.ukhttps://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/it-crash-firm-says-only-a-small-proportion-of-clients-have-moved/5110761.articlethenegotiator.co.ukhttps://thenegotiator.co.uk/news/simplify-groups-november-2021-cyber-attack-cost-the-firm-6-8-million/propertyindustryeye.comhttps://propertyindustryeye.com/major-online-conveyancing-system-crash-delay-completions/