The State of Bar California is inspecting a data attack after hearing that a site is publishing sensitive information about 260,000 attorney discipline cases pertaining to California and different jurisdictions. State Bar officials came to know about the posted records on Feb 24 on Saturday night, all the sensitivity details that were posted on the site judyrecords.com, that includes case numbers, information about various cases and statuses, respondents, file dates, and witness names that were removed.
State Bar executive Leah Wilson in a statement said that the bar apologizes for the site's unauthorized display of personal data. The bar takes full responsibility for protecting confidential data with sincerity, and it is currently doing everything it can to resolve the issue quickly and protect respondents from further attacks.
According to reports, full case records were not leaked, as per officials, they don't know if the published information was due to a hacking attack. Judyrecords.com is a site that covers court case records nationwide.
The State Bar website lets the public search for case details, but the details about the attorney discipline case published by judyrecords.com are not meant for public access. The information was stored in State Bar's Odyssey case management system, which is given by vendor Tyler Technologies.
As per the California Business and Professions Code, disciplinary investigations are confidential filing of formal charges. The conclusion of the data breach is that the State Bar notified law enforcement and asked forensic expert teams to inspect the issue. Tyler Technologies is currently assisting in the inquiry.
Besides this, the state bar also asked the hosting provider of the website to take down the published information. Judyrecords website says, "Judyrecords is a 100% free nationwide search engine that lets you instantly search hundreds of millions of United States court cases and lawsuits. Judy records have over 100x more cases than Google Scholar and 10x more cases than PACER, the official case management system of the United States federal judiciary.
As of Dec 2021, Judy records now features the free full-text search of all United States patents from 1/1/1976 to 11/10/2021 — over 7.9 million patents in total."
