US federal courts were reportedly hit by another data breach

According to testimony by Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, the federal courts’ document system was subject to a breach of “startling breadth and scale” in early 2020. According to reports, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed legislators that an investigation was continuing and that the courts had been notified about the breach in March. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), among other politicians, raised concern that the DOJ had been withholding information regarding the breach and was refusing to offer an explanation to Congress and the general public.

Reuters reports that Nadler claimed that “three hostile foreign actors” were responsible for the “system security breakdown,” but security authorities for the DOJ declined to name any potential culprits. Early in 2021, the federal justice system declared that it will go low-tech and send its most private documents by hand, as opposed to using the system for case management and electronic case files that is accessible to the general public. It used the SolarWinds assault, which allowed hackers access to the networks of several companies and governmental organizations, as justification for the policy change at the time. Although it is also believed that the SolarWinds hack started in early 2020, the Nadler breach is supposedly a different occurrence.

There is currently no known information concerning the attackers’ access or how they gained access to the judiciary’s computer systems. It’s also unclear when DOJ authorities learned about the hack. When The Verge contacted the Justice Department’s National Security Division for comment about the attack and ensuing inquiry, they did not react right away. There is currently no known information concerning the attackers’ access or how they gained access to the judiciary’s computer systems. It’s also unclear when DOJ authorities learned about the hack. When The Hamden Journal contacted the Justice Department’s National Security Division for comment about the attack and following inquiry, they did not answer right away.

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