"The federal judiciary is taking "special measures" in cases in which information may have been exposed in a hack of the case management system used to upload case documents, according to Acting Assistant Attorney General Matt Galeotti. In a briefing with reporters, Galeotti said "technical steps" are being taken, and "different filing measures" are being put into place, Reuters reports."
"The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced in an Aug. 7 press release that the judiciary was strengthening protections "in response to recent escalated cyberattacks of a sophisticated and persistent nature on its case management system." Although most of the documents filed on the courts' electronic filing system are open to the public through PACER, some sealed documents "can be targets of interest to a range of threat actors," the press release said."
Federal judiciary is implementing measures and technical steps where information may have been exposed in a hack of the case-management system used to upload case documents. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts strengthened protections in response to escalated cyberattacks characterized as sophisticated and persistent against the case-management system. Most documents on the electronic filing system are publicly accessible through PACER, but sealed filings can be targets for a range of threat actors. Some courts require sealed documents in paper form only, while the Eastern District of New York is creating an online submission process outside CM/ECF for sealed filings.
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