US and Canadian court data exposed in Thomson Reuters breach
Thomson Reuters disclosed a breach of its C-Track court platform exposing sealed court records and personal data across 12+ US states and Canada.
Thomson Reuters disclosed that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track, its court case management platform, affecting courts in at least 12 US states, the US Virgin Islands and Canada. The company discovered the activity on June 30 and evidence indicates access ran from March through June; the intrusion method, attacker identity and number of affected people remain unknown. Exposed data may include names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, medical information, dates of birth and health insurance details, including some sealed or redacted court records. Affected individuals are being offered 12 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection.