The Wyoming Judicial Branch says it is investigating the scope of a cybersecurity breach at West Publishing that may have exposed a decade of court data covering cases from 2015 to 2025.
Scope of the West Publishing breach
Jacob Just, communications director for the Wyoming Judicial Branch, said in an email: “Our internal team completed a preliminary review of the data shortly after we received notification of the incident involving West Publishing to gauge what we could, including a high-level view of what information and time frame were exposed.” “That gave us a general sense that data was exposed for cases between 2015 and 2025, and exposed [personally identifiable information] was likely limited to names, dates of birth, and addresses.”
Just said the judicial branch is awaiting the full analysis to confirm that information and that it does not yet know how long that will take. “At that point, the judicial branch will work with West Publishing on any potential direct notifications that need to be made,” he said. Just also reiterated that the breach did not impact the judicial branch’s networks or systems currently in use by the courts.
West Publishing, which was recently hacked, previously provided case management services to the Wyoming Supreme Court and Wyoming district courts.
For the most part, the Wyoming Supreme Court reviews appeals from district court decisions in civil and criminal cases, hears petitions for extraordinary relief from lower court decisions, and occasionally answers questions certified to it from federal courts.
Wyoming state district courts are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state, except for small claims cases, misdemeanors and civil cases under $50,000; they handle the most serious and controversial cases in the state.
Response and assistance
While the judicial branch awaits the full analysis, West Publishing is providing 12 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to those potentially affected. Those services can be arranged at CTrackNotification.com.
