California State Bar notifies 1,300 people identified in data breach
The California State Bar has begun notifying people whose names appeared in more than 322,000 confidential attorney disciplinary records posted online in connection with a massive data breach..
The state bar said it will contact 1,300 complainants, witnesses or respondents whose names appear in more than a thousand confidential records posted online.
“The State Bar is committed to transparency and maintaining public confidence in our agency is paramount,” State Bar Executive Director Leah Wilson said in a statement.
The documents, published by public records aggregator Judyrecords, mistakenly remained online from October 15, 2021 to February 26, 2022.
The breach, first reported by the Southern California News Group, was not a hack, but rather a security flaw in the State Bar’s case management system. As a result, the confidential records were unwittingly scanned and released by Judyrecords.
Access to the State Bar’s public records has been restored and the vulnerability has been patched, the news group reported on Saturday.
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