According to Russia, involved in the rules of US federal courts

The databases used by US federal courts have been hacked to share cases documents. I mentioned for the first time the breakthrough last week on August 6; Today, an investigation of It states that Russia is suspected of participating in the attack. The administrative office of the American courts initially identified the severity of the cybersecurity in July, although the extent of violating the “continuous” cyber threats “was not disclosed and is still known by national officials.

Both cases management files/electronic cases (CM/ECF) and the Paceer systems were affected by the attack. CM/ECF is used by legal professionals and courts to store documents, while Paceer gives limited public access to those files themselves. Anonymous officials said Politico The chief judge was briefed on the federal courts in the eighth district of the attack, but they were unable to confirm the agency presented by the briefing. The eighth circle includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

PoliticoThe original report said that the penetration may have “led to” the identities of the secret informants involved in criminal cases in the courts of multiple federal provinces. ” Times The coverage added that some of the searches conducted by the infiltrators “included moderate criminal cases in the region in the New York City region and many other judicial states, with some cases in which people who suffer from Russian and Eastern nicknames were involved.” However, there were no additional details about what the entity is behind the attack, whether the Russian intelligence branch may be involved, or the evidence discovered by investigators in linking the penetration in Russia.

It is not the only time that CM/ECF was a goal for piracy. The courts have provided new protection to the regime In response to the electronic attack; similar It arrived on August 7. At this time, the courts were requested to transfer files for cases that may be of importance from the systems that have been hacked, although some areas have requested more limited use than CM/ECF or Pacer as a preventive measure.