News Summary

• The New York Times reports that the Russian government is allegedly behind the data breach affecting the U.S. court filing system known as PACER.
• The hackers searched for “midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern European surnames,” per the article.
• Last week, Politico reported that hackers had broken into the federal judiciary’s electronic case filing system, potentially accessing the identities of confidential informants.