Overview

• Investigators say the CM/ECF and PACER networks suffered a multi-year breach and have found evidence that Russia was at least partly responsible.
• The intrusion, traced to early July, may have exposed sealed criminal records, confidential informants and national-security case materials.
• Judges were ordered to remove sensitive filings from the electronic system and some districts temporarily halted new uploads to PACER while enforcing multifactor authentication.
• The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced accelerated security measures, including system isolation and stricter access controls, to contain the breach.
• President Trump downplayed Moscow’s suspected role but said he could raise the issue with Vladimir Putin as Congress schedules oversight hearings.