Security News > 2022 > February > Quarter of a million lawyer disciplinary records leak

Approximately 260,000 nonpublic disciplinary records stored on behalf of The State Bar of California were found to be exposed to the public and to have been republished on Judyrecords.com, a website that aggregates over 630 million public court records.

Full case records were not disclosed, the State Bar said, and it's not yet clear how many attorney and witness names were revealed.

The State Bar, which oversees the licensing of attorneys in the US state of California, also expressed concern that other government entities may be affected.

"We believe the issue is broader than the State Bar, because it appears that confidential records from other jurisdictions are appearing on the site as well," the State Bar said on its privacy breach update page.

In a series of updates posted to the website's info page, the unidentified site operator says the confidential disciplinary records were removed, along with 60,000 public records, on Saturday after the State Bar issued its press release acknowledging the data exposure.

"The State Bar's Odyssey case management system software vendor, Tyler Technologies, has been tasked with investigating what happened, taking the steps needed to rectify the breach, and ensuring something similar does not happen again," the State Bar explains.

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