Those social-networkers who know their ‘pokes’ from their ‘status updates’ may remember the controversial Facebook ban briefly imposed by Allen & Overy last year – to such uproar in the ranks that the red-faced firm soon performed a Gordon Brown-style U-turn.

Now the firm has been hit by another technological terror, becoming the latest City outfit to fall victim to the curse of the ‘phishers’ – including unscrupulous cyber-squatters who hijack respectable email addresses for their own illicit purposes.

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