US court system ditches electronic filing, goes paper-only for sensitive documents following SolarWinds hack

US court system ditches electronic filing, goes paper-only for sensitive documents following SolarWinds hack

The US court system has banned the electronic submission of legal documents in sensitive cases out of concern that Russian hackers have compromised the filing system.


In an extraordinary memo [PDF] handed down to all courts late last week, any documents that “contain information that is likely to be of interest to the intelligence service of a foreign government” will now have to be physically printed out and provided in a physical format.

The decision follows concerns last month that as a result of the SolarWinds fiasco – in which suspected Kremlin spies gained access to the networks of multiple US government departments via backdoored IT tools – that the ..

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