Russian government hackers lurked in the records system of the US courts for years and stole sensitive documents that judges had ordered sealed from public view, ​​according to two people familiar with the matter and a report seen by Bloomberg News.

The American judicial system has suffered a large-scale cyberattack, which is believed to have been carried out by the Russian government. Source: The New York Times, citing sources Details: The NYT sources stated that Russia is at least partly responsible for hacking PACER,

Officials are reportedly blaming a recent breach of the U.S. federal court's filing system on Russia, whose hackers used the access to snoop on midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and other jurisdictions.