Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System (nytimes.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/12/213252/russia-is-suspected-to-be-behind-breach-of-federal-court-filing-system
- Source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html
> Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least [2]partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents , including highly sensitive records with information that could reveal sources and people charged with national security crimes, according to several people briefed on the breach. It is not clear what entity is responsible, whether an arm of Russian intelligence might be behind the intrusion or if other countries were also involved, which some of the people familiar with the matter described as a yearslong effort to infiltrate the system. Some of the searches included midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern European surnames.
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> Administrators with the court system recently informed Justice Department officials, clerks and chief judges in federal courts that "persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently compromised sealed records," according to an internal department memo reviewed by The New York Times. The administrators also advised those officials to quickly remove the most sensitive documents from the system. "This remains an URGENT MATTER that requires immediate action," officials wrote, referring to guidance that the Justice Department had issued in early 2021 after the system was first infiltrated. Documents related to criminal activity with an overseas tie, across at least eight district courts, were initially believed to have been targeted. Last month, the chief judges of district courts across the country were quietly warned to move those kinds of cases off the regular document-management system, according to officials briefed on the request. They were initially told not to discuss the matter with other judges in their districts.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~ole_timer
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html
Epstein files (Score:1)
They want to see the Epstein files too
Russia gets by... (Score:4, Insightful)
With a little help from their friends; particularly "DoGE," and the Republicans. The phone call is coming from inside the house.
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Flamebait? Really? Surely you forgot when Trump ordered all federal agencies to leave Russian cyber incidents alone. And then when Doge went into National Labor Relations Board and installed a bunch of back door accounts for themselves which almost immediately started to see login attempts on those accounts? The logins were ultimately blocked, but it's impossible to say Russian hackers didn't find their way in through the ineptness of DOGE.
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Just because your life's a mess and you have to blame Russia for it doesn't make the evidence they found go away.
You didn't get the joke, right? (Score:2)
Hillary Clinton is just a silly political dinosaur who thought that we were still living in the Cold War era and that mentioning 'Russia' would make Americans fearful enough to vote for her instead of Trump.
Everybody knows the Russians didn't have anything to do with her poor election performance.
She would blame the aliens from Area51 if she thought it would help.
No way. We don't investigate Russia anymore (Score:4, Informative)
Russia is our friend now. In fact, Trump ordered all federal agencies to no longer investigate any Russian cyber security incidents. Sounds great!
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You know that didn't really happen, right?
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[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
A recent memo at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) set out new priorities for the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security and monitors cyber threats against US critical infrastructure. The new directive set out priorities that included China and protecting local systems. It did not mention Russia.
A person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said analysts at the agency were verbally in
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security
That remove sensitive files thing sounds ominous (Score:2)
That "remove sensitive files from the system" thing sounds ominous. I hope they put them back. For historical records and so on. Yes, I know offline distributed multi-key file validation exists. still ... *puts on tinfoil hat*.
I Partially Suspect (Score:1)
Suspect? Partially responsible? That's a damning indictment, right there.
Should we warm up the nuclear missiles? Will the Secretary of State say a single word about it?
That they printed this story is just ridiculous. What's next UFO spotted in Omaha?
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Lol, peace talk summit.
Pedophile with 34 felonies meets international war criminal on US soil.
Re:I Partially Suspect (Score:4, Insightful)
More likely, there will be an offline discussion like last time where NO US personnel were present when Trump/Putin had a tete-a-tete. There was a Russian translator at the 2019 meeting and likely was taped by the Russians. [1]https://slate.com/news-and-pol... [slate.com] Wonder who is "pinky" and who is the "brain" in their discussions of world domination?
[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-putin-meeting-no-note-taker.html
Re:I Partially Suspect (Score:5, Insightful)
My worry is that we end up with the type of "peace talks" we got when Trump sent Kushner over to Israel to broker peace between them and the Palestinians. What we got was a farce of a treaty that only aggravated tensions as the Palestinians weren't even allowed to be present during the treaty's crafting. Just like Ukraine is being kept out of these talks.
Basically, my money is on them settling up conditions that aren't even close to being something Ukraine could accept and then Trump getting angry and blaming Ukraine for not accepting his brilliance on the matter.
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Russia has no reason to stop its offensive now, there is absolutely nothing that Rump can offer which would outweigh the advantages of continuing the offensive in Ukraine. They have very clearly laid out what it would take for them to consider stopping, and the terms are unacceptable to either the US or the Ukrainian government. (On the other hand, 69% of the Ukrainian public wants peace now at any cost, but who cares about those people? /s)
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> On the other hand, 69% of the Ukrainian public wants peace now at any cost, but who cares about those people?
No they don't, not "at any cost". The correct quote is:
In Gallup’s most recent poll of Ukraine — conducted in early July — 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory.
They are being worn down but know from past history that to give the Russians control of Ukraine is a death sentence for the entire population. Giving up land aside they are going to need something like Nato membership or foreign
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> Pedophile with 34 felonies meets international war criminal on US soil.
Didn't you hear? Trump [1]said [jwplayer.com] he was meeting Putin in Russia.
[1] https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/qZk4y75q
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Freudian slip. He's leasing Alaska to Russia.
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[1]https://www.dailykos.com/stori... [dailykos.com]
On the fourth and final sexual encounter with the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was tied to a bed by Defendant Trump who then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff Johnson. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff Johnson loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to "please wear a condom". Defendant Trump responded by violently striking Plaintiff Johnson in the face with his open hand and screaming that "he would do whatever he wanted" a
[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/4/2336769/-The-text-of-the-Katie-Johnson-v-Donald-Trump-Jeffery-Epstein-lawsuit
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Trump's already giving them Alaska as compensation for the slight.
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Didn't you get the memo? Anything bad that happens is now required to be blamed on either Russia, China or Iran. There are no other bad guys left in the world, apparently.
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I think the memo said blame Biden, then Obama, then those other guys,