SolarWinds hackers who breached US federal court system likely gained access to sealed documents containing trade secrets, espionage targets, and more
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America's most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. Tweets: @kimzetter , @kimzetter , @kimzetter , @kimzetter , and @ap Tweets: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : SolarWinds hackers who breached federal court system “probably gained access to the vast trove of confidential information hidden in sealed documents, including trade secrets, espionage targets, whistleblower reports and arrest warrants” https://twitter.com/... Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : “Criminal, civil and bankruptcy filings are believed to have been compromised, but not the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system, which handles national security surveillance warrants, according to the court employees.” Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : “Some courts encrypt documents filed under seal, but others do not.... Either way, anyone sophisticated enough to launch the SolarWinds attack can probably decrypt data, perhaps by stealing an authorized user's credentials, experts said.” Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : “Until recently, even the most secretive material—about wiretaps, witnesses and national security concerns—could be filed electronically. But that changed” after SolarWinds breach. Under new rules highly sensitive documents have to be printed out and hand-delivered to courthouse @ap : The massive Russian hacking campaign breached the U.S. court system's electronic case files, forcing changes in how sensitive documents are filed and raising fears about what information was compromised and how it will be used. https://apne.ws/GVEaoCD