The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is probing a data breach of the U.S. federal courts system dating back to 2020, a government official revealed on July 28.
During a hearing at the House Judiciary Committee, Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) told lawmakers that three “hostile foreign actors” had attacked the document filing system of U.S. courts in early 2020. The incident caused a “system security failure.” This was the first time that details of the incident were publicly disclosed. Only in March did the committee learn about the breach’s “startling breadth and scope.”
