BLISTERING WYDEN LETTER SEEKS REVIEW OF FEDERAL COURT CYBERSECURITY, CITING ‘INCOMPETENCE,' ‘NEGLIGENCE'

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Senator Ron Wyden demanded that Chief Justice Roberts authorize an independent cybersecurity review of federal courts following allegations that Russian hackers had stolen sealed case data from systems with vulnerabilities that had been left unfixed for five years. Wyden criticized the judiciary's failure to implement mandatory cybersecurity requirements, slow adoption of phishing-resistant multifactor authentication, and a pattern of stonewalling congressional oversight about previous breaches. The letter highlights systemic cybersecurity failures in the handling of critical government infrastructure, including classified national security documents and sealed criminal investigations.