Arizona Supreme Court says hackers stole residents’ personal data

What happened

Arizona Supreme Court says hackers stole residents’ personal data, according to The Record. A spokesperson for the court system told Recorded Future News that the incident did not involve ransomware (software that locks up files and demands payment) and the hackers have not issued ransom demands for the stolen data as of Monday. Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ann Scott Timmer said in a statement that the state court system was targeted by criminal hackers “or their bots.”

“Court leaders believe the criminal hackers copied personally identifiable information about many Arizonans,” Timmer said. “The Supreme Court’s Administrative Office of the Courts is in the process of alerting as many people as possible whose information it believes the criminal hackers copied.”

Timmer said the court would not release further details about the incident because they may impact the investigation into the attack. No hacking group has publicly taken credit for the attack. Court systems continue to bear the brunt of state-level cyberattacks due to the troves of sensitive personal information and law enforcement data held on judicial servers.