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Title: Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/12/21325...

ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: Investigators have
uncovered evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a recent
hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including
highly sensitive records with information that could reveal sources and
people charged with national security crimes, according to several people
briefed on the breach. It is not clear what entity is responsible, whether an
arm of Russian intelligence might be behind the intrusion or if other
countries were also involved, which some of the people familiar with the
matter described as a yearslong effort to infiltrate the system. Some of the
searches included midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and
several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian
and Eastern European surnames. Administrators with the court system recently
informed Justice Department officials, clerks and chief judges in federal
courts that "persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently
compromised sealed records," according to an internal department memo
reviewed by The New York Times. The administrators also advised those
officials to quickly remove the most sensitive documents from the system.
"This remains an URGENT MATTER that requires immediate action," officials
wrote, referring to guidance that the Justice Department had issued in early
2021 after the system was first infiltrated. Documents related to criminal
activity with an overseas tie, across at least eight district courts, were
initially believed to have been targeted. Last month, the chief judges of
district courts across the country were quietly warned to move those kinds of
cases off the regular document-management system, according to officials
briefed on the request. They were initially told not to discuss the matter
with other judges in their districts.

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