Russia 'responsible for hacking highly sensitive US court records'
The highly sensitive records that were breached could hold details on people charged with national security crimes, a few sources told The New York Times on Tuesday.
The report comes three days before US President Donald Trump is set to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
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