Saturday, January 25, 2014

Court system hit with cyberattack

Tony Romm
Politico
January 25, 2014
No official comment on the attack. Credit: fh-ap.com
The Justice Dept. has yet to comment on the attack. Credit: fh-ap.com

Unidentified hackers took aim at the federal court system Friday, blocking access to its public website while preventing lawyers and litigants from filing legal documents online.


The incident affected uscourts.gov, the federal court’s public hub, as well as most if not all federal court sites — not to mention the federal court system’s electronic filing system and its access page, PACER, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said Friday.

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