The very first paragraph of the article seems to contradict that. Do you have a source that says otherwise?
>>>The site owner (of judyrecords) claims that the State Bar’s confidential and public case records were all previously available at a public URL. Is this true?
>>>The State Bar Court website allows the public to search for publicly available case information. The extent to which the external aggregating website was able to obtain nonpublic information that was stored in the Odyssey case management system is still being investigated.
I am inclined to believe judyrecords, until proven otherwise.
A perfect example why MORE public information is better than less.
> We do not know yet. 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 also retained a team of IT forensics experts to assist in our investigation.
> The site owner claims that the State Bar’s confidential and public case records were all previously available at a public URL. Is this true?
> The State Bar Court website allows the public to search for publicly available case information. The extent to which the external aggregating website was able to obtain nonpublic information that was stored in the Odyssey case management system is still being investigated.
It sounds extremely likely that the state bar had a website misconfigured, and the automated systems of the aggregation site sucked down all the data it was technically (but not legally) given access to.
