US President Donald Trump speaks throughout the unveiling of the Kennedy Center Honors nominees on August 13, 2025, on the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off a query a couple of new report that Russia is no less than partially answerable for hacking the digital system that manages U.S. federal courtroom case paperwork.
“Are you surprised?” Trump mentioned throughout a press occasion at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C.
“They hack in, that’s what they do,” he mentioned about Russia.
“They’re good at it, we’re good at it, we’re actually better at it.”
Revelations of the breach got here days earlier than Trump is about to satisfy with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska about Russia’s conflict towards Ukraine.
Trump mentioned that he “could” carry up the hack throughout the assembly.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that proof reveals that an entity in Russia appeared to have hacked the courtroom case doc system and “recently compromised sealed records.”
That system, along with containing publicly obtainable courtroom paperwork, additionally has hidden data, together with data on people charged with nationwide safety crimes.
“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,” the Times reported.
The hack is believed to be half of a yearslong effort, the information outlet reported.
The U.S. courts system final week introduced it “is taking additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case documents in response to recent escalated cyberattacks of a sophisticated and persistent nature on its case management system.”
“The Judiciary is also further enhancing security of the system and to block future attacks, and it is prioritizing working with courts to mitigate the impact on litigants,” the system mentioned.
An inner memo to Justice Department officers and staffers from the courts system, which the Times reviewed, warned that “persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently compromised sealed records.”
“This remains an URGENT MATTER that requires immediate action,” the memo mentioned.