Judiciary
After PACER hack, judiciary takes ‘particular measures’ and ‘technical steps,’ DOJ official says
August 19, 2025, 9:53 am CDT
The federal judiciary is taking “particular measures” in instances wherein data might have been uncovered in a hack of the case administration system used to add case paperwork. (Picture from Shutterstock)
The federal judiciary is taking “particular measures” in instances wherein data might have been uncovered in a hack of the case administration system used to add case paperwork, in line with Appearing Assistant Lawyer Common Matt Galeotti.
In a briefing with reporters, Galeotti stated “technical steps” are being taken, and “completely different submitting measures” are being put into place, Reuters experiences.
The Administrative Workplace of the U.S. Courts introduced in an Aug. 7 press launch that the judiciary was strengthening protections “in response to current escalated cyberattacks of a complicated and chronic nature on its case administration system.”
Though a lot of the paperwork filed on the courts’ digital submitting system are open to the general public via PACER, some sealed paperwork “may be targets of curiosity to a spread of risk actors,” the press launch stated.
In accordance with CNN, some federal courts had been requiring sealed paperwork to be filed in paper type solely. They embody the Jap District of Washington, the Southern District of Florida and the Jap District of Virginia.
Taking one other tack, the Jap District of New York was creating a web based submission course of outdoors PACER’s Case Administration/Digital Case Recordsdata system, often called CM/ECF, for sealed paperwork, in line with CNN and the New York Instances.
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