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.”
In response to Nadler’s questions about the matter, Matt Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD), admitted that the incident was a “significant concern.”…