Ruh-Oh, Something Bad Happened to CohnReznick’s Network (Allegedly)

Posted on December 7, 2023December 7, 2023 by Adrienne Gonzalez

Yellow ethernet cord wrapped up on a blue background

Tip time! CohnReznick’s network is apparently contaminated and the firm has warned employees not to connect to it in the office under any circumstances (in red text and caps no less). In fact, they’ve told people to stay home just to be safe.

Tip:

All offices are working remotely with severely limited access to normal functions and systems. All internet has been turned off at the offices worldwide. Down for a couple of days now.

They’re very serious, you guys. In an email with a handy visual of the firm’s docking stations the firm says:

It is CRITICAL that you DO NOT MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO CONNECT TO THE CohnReznick NETWORK.

DO NOT REDEEM.

DO NOT REDEEM!!

According to another internal email we’ve reviewed, the firm detected unusual activity on the network and took the network servers offline “to protect our information.” There is currently no indication that client or employee data has been compromised.

The email from the office of People and Culture also gave a list of work-related activities for employees to consider while the network is down including:

CPA and Learning and Development via LINC, LinkedIn Learning, etc
Snapshot review, goal setting and coaching meetings
Mid-year review documentation and meetings
Engagement planning or budget managements
Client work that can be done with desktop such as excel schedules word doc memos etc

Gaming and Netflix it is, then.

So what do we think? Partner clicked a link in a sketchy email? Some idiot downloaded GTAVIfullgame.exe from a dubious website on the office internet? We’ll let you know if we hear more.

Firm Watch: Ernst & Young

Caleb Newquist
August 4, 2009

Round two of our Firm Watch this week covers everybody’s favorite resident of Times Square, Ernst & Young. We’ll get started on E&Y’s trubs with the Schein lawsuit where the firm was recently found to be marginally negligent and were ordered to pay a smidge over $10 mil as a result. NBD really, as E&Y probably spends that much money screwing up the spelling of their name on cheesy coffee cups.
The more serious stuff on E&Y, after the jump

Here’s some major stuff that probably keeps some E&Y partners awake at night:
• Lehman Brothers – E&Y’s role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers has got little attention in the press, however, suits have already been filed by San Mateo County in California, the City of Long Beach, California and the Southern District of Texas. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to speculate that more suits are likely to be filed.
• Madoff Exposure – E&Y also has significant Madoff exposure, as the auditor of several feeder funds. D&O Diary has them listed as defendants in at least ten different lawsuits.
• Layoffs – There have lots of reports of layoffs at E&Y in the last month or so, many of which occurred in the tax practices in the Northeast, and many of those getting the axe were supposedly on visas. Real classy. This was a follow-up to layoffs that also went down in February. As if that’s not enough, there were also rumors of layoffs occurring monthly since September ’08 in the Detroit office. Plus, with lots comments about stealth layoffs at all levels, it sounds like it has been a bloodbath at E&Y.
So that seems to be the major stuff, from our view, for E&Y. Again, we want to know what we’re missing. We’re looking for tips and dirt on any of the things we discussed above and everything we didn’t mention. Email us at tips@goingconcern.com and we’ll get all your additional gripes on here.