The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks during the presentation of the nominees of honors of the Kennedy center on August 13, 2025 at the Kennedy center in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump shrunk on Wednesday a question about a new report that Russia is at least partially responsible for hacking the electronic system that manages the documents of the Federal Court of the United States.
“Are you surprised?” Trump said during a press event at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, DC
“They do, that’s what they do,” he said about Russia.
“They are good at that, we are good at that, we are actually better in that.”
The revelations of the rape occurred days before Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska about the Russian war against Ukraine.
Trump said “could” mention the trick during the meeting.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the evidence shows that an entity in Russia seemed to have pirate the system of documents of the judicial case and “recently compromised the sealed records.”
This system, in addition to containing publicly available judicial documents, also has hidden records, including information about people accused of national security crimes.
“Some of the searches included criminal cases of medium level in the area of New York City and several other jurisdictions, and some cases involve people with surnames from Russian and east Europe,” said the Times.
It is believed that the trick is part of a one -year effort, the media reported.
The US court system. Uu. Last week he announced that “additional measures are taking to strengthen the protections of confidential cases in response to recent cyber attacks scalled sophisticated and persistent nature in its case management system.”
“The Judiciary is also improving system security and blocking future attacks, and is prioritizing working with courts to mitigate the impact on litigants,” said the system.
An internal memorandum for the officials and employees of the Department of Justice of the Court System, which reviewed the Times, warned that “the persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently compromised sealed records.”
“This is still an urgent matter that requires immediate action,” said the memorandum.
