The U.S. federal government's court case filing system has been compromised.

The identities of court informants, as well as other valuable information like arrest warrants, could have been accessed in a major hack that was reported by Politico . It's thought to have affected the government's Case Management/Electronic Case Files (or CM/ECF), which is used by those who work in law to upload legal documents. On top of that, PACER, which is a publicly accessible database with some of that same information, was also thought to be affected.

Politico also reported that chief judges from federal courts in various states attended a briefing on the hack last week in Kansas City. At this point, it's not known who perpetrated the hack, though Politico's sources suggested foreign state actors coul

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