Oops! Confidential bar records posted

The Recorder reports Thousands of Confidential Attorney Records Posted Online, State Bar Says -- The bar said data released online included disciplinary case numbers, file dates, case types, case statuses, and the names of respondents and complaining witnesses.

• A judicial records website accessed and published more than 250,000 confidential attorney discipline records, the California State Bar announced Saturday.
• The website judyrecords.com, a free database that aggregates links to millions of records from courts around the country, also posted 60,000 public California State Bar Court records, the bar said.
• “We apologize to anyone who is affected by the website’s unlawful display of nonpublic data,” Leah Wilson, the bar’s executive director, said in a statement. “We take our obligations to protect confidential data with the utmost seriousness, and we are doing everything we can to ensure that we resolve this issue quickly and prevent any such breaches from recurring. We intend to act quickly to provide disclosures to affected individuals.”