Several websites of the US federal court system, including the ones of the United States Courts (uscourts.gov) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (pacer.gov), were disrupted on Friday afternoon after being hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack.
Many other federal court websites have also suffered outages due to the cyberattack launched by unidentified actors. One of the sites, the one of the Middle District of Florida, was offline for around four hours, t…