Russia reportedly implicated in hack on US federal courts' databases
The article reports that databases used by US federal courts for sharing and managing case documents have been hacked, and Russia is suspected to be involved in the attack. The Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) and PACER systems have been impacted, with concerns that the identities of confidential informants involved in criminal cases may have been compromised. While details about the entity behind the attack and the evidence linking it to Russia are limited, the article notes that the courts have introduced new protections for the system and ordered the movement of files for cases that may have been of interest off the compromised systems.
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