Never before had an entire opinion made its way to the public before the court was ready to announce it.
Investigators “conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees, all of whom denied disclosing the opinion,” the court said.
The investigation concluded that it “is unlikely that the Court’s information technology (IT) systems were improperly accessed by a person outside the Court,” following an examination of the court’s computers, networks, printers, and available call and text logs.
The “risk of both deliberate and accidental disclosures of Court-sensitive information” grew with the coronavirus pandemic and shift to working from home, the report said. More people working from home, ”as well as gaps in the Court’s security policies, created an environment where it was too easy to remove sensitive information from the building and the Court’s IT networks,” the report said.
Investigators are continuing to “review and process some electronic data that has been collected and a few other inquiries remain pending,” the report said.
