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Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
Major US adversary believed to be behind 'unprecedented' cyber hack on US court data
Russia is believed to be behind an 'unprecedented' cyber hack that exposed some of the Department of Justice's most high-profile sources. Last week, it was revealed the hackers breached the electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary - and may have accessed confidential information from federal district courts around the country. It has since been dug up by investigators that those responsible, at least in part, have Russian origins, just days before Donald Trump is set to meet with Vladimir Putin in Washington. Several people briefed told the New York Times that despite the certainty, it was unclear if the hackers were with Russian intelligence or if other nations were involved in what they call a yearslong effort. The searches involved in the breach often involved mid-level criminal files that featured people with Russian surnames. Last week, it was revealed that among the information that may have been compromised are the identities of confidential informants in criminal cases, though the identities of those who were thought to face exceptional risk for cooperating with the DOJ are held on separate systems than the ones hacked. Department of Justice officials under Attorney General Pam Bondi have reportedly been informed that the court files have faced 'persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently compromised sealed records.' The staffers have been warned to remove any of their most important documents from the system. Officials are still dealing with figuring out the patterns of the breach and determine the complete damage done. The Daily Mail has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment. Other information the hackers may have acquired are sealed indictments detailing confidential information about alleged crimes and arrests and search warrants that criminals may use to evade capture. The Administrative Office of the US Courts, which manages the federal court filing system, has now been left scrambling with the Department of Justice and district courts around the US to determine how much of a threat the hack poses. But an unidentified source who spent more than two decades on the federal judiciary told Politico: 'It's the first time I've ever seen a hack at this level.' It is now suspected that the attack was conducted by nation-state affiliated actors, though criminal organizations may have also been involved. Officials were first made aware of the breach around the July 4 holiday, and chief judges of the federal courts in the 8th Circuit - which includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota - were alerted about the hack last week, according to Politico. It affected the judiciary's federal core case management system - which includes the Case Management/Electronic Case Files that lawyers use to upload and manage case documents as well as PACER, a system that gives the public limited access to the data. Roughly a dozen court dockets were also tampered with in one court district during the hack, an unidentified source said. The incident demonstrates the susceptibility of the outdated court filing system to hackers. PACER had even been hacked at least once before - back in July 2022 - in a breach that then-House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler described as 'startling in breadth and scope.' Michael Scudder, who chairs the Committee on Information Technology for the federal courts and national policymaking body, warned the House Judiciary in June of this year that more such attacks may be coming. He said that because the Judiciary holds such sensitive information, it faces 'unrelenting security threats of extraordinary gravity.' 'Experience has shown that the Judiciary is a high-value target for malicious actors and cyber criminals seeking to misappropriate confidential information and disrupt the judicial process in the United States,' he testified. 'These attacks pose risks to our entire justice system.' In fiscal year 2024, he noted, 200 million harmful cyber 'events' were prevented from penetrating court local area networks in fiscal year 2024, according to The Record. But, Scudder said, the Case Management/Electronic Case Files and PACER systems pose an even greater risk as they are 'outdated [and] unsustainable due to cyber risks and require replacement,' which he said is a 'top priority' for the Department of Justice. Still, Scudder said, a new, more modernized system would have to be 'developed and rolled out on an incremental basis.'
The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
Trump news at a glance: national guard gathers in DC as president mulls expanding their role across US
A steady stream of uniformed soldiers arrived at the national guard headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for deployment that evening to fight crime in the nation's capital. Donald Trump's deployment of the 800-strong force has been described by Democrats as political theater. With Trump threatening to replicate the move in other big cities, Democrats point to statistics showing that violent crime in Washington has dropped to historic lows in the past two years. About 850 officers and agents took part in a 'massive law enforcement surge' across Washington DC on Monday night and made nearly two dozen arrests, the White House said on Tuesday. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, 'this is only the beginning. Over the course of the next month, the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue and arrest every violent criminal in the district who breaks the law, undermines public safety and endangers law-abiding Americans.' Trump's intervention has been widely condemned as an authoritarian power grab that undermines the autonomy of Washington's DC local government and seeks to distract attention from political problems such as the Jeffrey Epstein files. Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington DC, has pledged to work 'side by side' with the federal government as national guard troops arrive at their headquarters in the capital. The show of force came after Donald Trump announced that he was sending the national guard into the capital and putting city police under federal control, even though the violent crime rate is at a 30-year low. Read the full story Donald Trump could expand the use of national guard troops in US cities even further, if a plan from the Pentagon comes to fruition. The Washington Post, reporting on internal documents on Tuesday, says Pentagon officials are 'evaluating plans' to create a 'Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force' that would deploy to crack down on cities in events of unrest or during protests. Read the full story A US appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a group of unions to block the Trump administration government downsizing team known as the 'department of government efficiency' (Doge) from accessing sensitive data on Americans. Read the full story An outbreak of a respiratory disease, possibly Covid-19, is running rampant through the remote Florida immigration jail known as 'Alligator Alcatraz', according to the attorney of an infected detainee removed from the camp last week. Read the full story A newly appointed official at the US Department of Labor hired by the Trump administration has a recent history of racist, sexually graphic, and conspiratorial posts on social media. Jessico Bowman was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the labor department, which is to lead 'the US Department of Labor's efforts to ensure that workers around the world are treated fairly and are able to share in the benefits of the global economy'. She has deleted her account on X and Facebook accounts since announcing her hiring. Read the full story Donald Trump's administration says it has determined that George Washington University has violated federal civil rights law, making it the latest higher educational institution to be targeted by the White House over last spring's campus protests against Israeli military strikes in Gaza. Read the full story Donald Trump hit out at Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, saying the bank had been wrong to predict tariffs would hurt the economy. The White House told the Smithsonian that it plans a wide review of exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of the US's 250th anniversary celebrations in 2026. US prices continued to rise in July, according to key economic data, as Donald Trump's international tariffs shake-up started to impact consumer costs. Catching up? Here's what happened on 11 August 2025.
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
National Guard descends on streets of Washington DC after Trump vows to 'rescue capital from bloodshed'
The National Guard started patrolling the streets of Washington DC on Tuesday night after President Trump announced the government would takeover policing in the city. Troops with the National Guard arrived into the capital late on Tuesday night in a bid by the White House to curb violent crime. Images of the troops started to pour in shortly after 8pm EST, showing camo clad officers being dispersed throughout the city. Military Humvees also parked on the National Mall on Tuesday evening with officers standing closeby. FBI Director Kash Patel said that so far arrested 23 people were arrested in the city with help from partners in a post to his X. According to Patel one person was arrested on a search warrant for a previous murder charge while others were nabbed for unlawful possession of firearms. Patel added that multiple people were also arrested for having outstanding warrants for DUI, while one was taken in for violating a restraining order. 'These are just a few examples we are just getting started. When you let good cops be cops they can clean up our streets and do it fast', he added. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that around 850 officers and agents had fanned out across the city on Monday and made the arrests. The move by Trump was announced on Monday, the president said the move was to 'rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor'. Flanked by cabinet members Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro, FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Interior Director Doug Burgum, Trump said he would instruct federal law enforcement officials to deploy aggressive tactics against the city's worst offenders. 'You spit and we hit and we can hit real hard,' he said. The president also vowed to clear out camps of homeless people from Washington, DC parks and public lands. Federal law officials began their citywide deployment over the weekend, ramping up a public display of force that was seen immediately by residents. 'Our Capital City has been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people, and we're not going to let it happen anymore,' he said. 'We're not going to take it.' Trump also highlighted recent horrific crimes in the city including a 21-year-old congressional intern who was hit by a stray bullet in a drive-by shooting and killed. As well as a former Trump administration official murdered in a carjacking, and a Democratic congressman who was carjacked at gunpoint. Trump also recalled a 'demented lunatic' that stabbed an aide to Sen. Rand Paul in 2023 and a 3-year-old girl who was shot and killed near the Capitol. The president's claim that crime has spike has been contested by the D.C.'s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has pointed to stats that show violent crime has decreased in the District since 2023. Violent crime in DC is down 26 percent this year and in 2024 reached a 30-year low, with 190 homicides in 2024 compared to 274 in 2023, according to metro police department statistics. 'The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive,' Trump said in a Sunday night Truth Social post. In April, Bowser announced the creation of a special police force specifically to tackle underage crime. In an interview on MSNBC Sunday, she pushed back on White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller saying that D.C. was 'more violent than Baghdad.'
