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- Thomson Reuters disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed files from its C-Track court case management software in March 2026, affecting courts in 11 U.S. states, the U.S.
- Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada.
- Stolen court records may contain names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, dates of birth, medical information, and health insurance information, and some confidential or sealed information may have been impacted.
- The company is offering 12 months of free credit monitoring through Experian (or TransUnion in Canada) to potentially affected individuals, with enrollment open until December 31, 2026.
- Several courts, including Minnesota's, gave differing accounts of where the breach occurred, with Ohio stating the access hit the courts' production platform while Alabama said the incident was in the vendor's systems.
- The breach matters because it touched court systems holding sealed and personal legal records, and there is still no clarity on the full scope of what was taken or whether it has been misused.
What to watch next
- Thomson Reuters' response to questions about which environment was accessed and whether Minnesota courts are affected
- Whether Ohio receives and discloses details of the enhanced security measures TRCMS said it deployed
- What Ontario's chief justices conclude about what information may have been compromised
Who said what2
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Natalie Hudson
Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
1 quote · 1 outlet
“deeply troubled that our court users' data has been compromised.”
In the article
…Thomson Reuters' access to the courts' electronic environments, and that users of the appellate case management system must change their passwords. Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson said she is " deeply troubled that our court users' data has been compromised. " In Montana Supreme Court's release, the court said the material taken was backup data stored on Thomson Reuters servers, drawn from database copies that had been "supplied to TR for the purpose of troubleshooting the…
Sarah Stewart
Alabama Chief Justice
1 quote · 1 outlet
“This incident occurred within our vendor's systems, not our own”
In the article
…West Publishing later told them that a copy of some Alabama appellate court data was kept in a backup file within the company's cloud environment, a backup the courts said they had neither requested nor known about. " This incident occurred within our vendor's systems, not our own ," Alabama Chief Justice Sarah Stewart said. The Supreme Court of Ohio, however, said in its own statement that Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions (TRCMS) informed it on August 31 that "the unauthorized access…
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