U.S. district homage personnel mistakenly believed that sealed records could live made available on a system called PACER. PACER is a web-based records system. Nearly a million defense lawyers, prosecutors, journalists, private investigators, authorities officials and researchers who apply PACER could have accessed about 40 sealed records for as long as nine months. The records were sealed court applications filed by 10 separate federal prosecutors in Alabama. Information in the records included installing hidden surveillance cameras, examining Facebook records, obtaining citation information, procuring telephone records and tracking calls. specific names, addresses, and phone numbers were exposed. The info was removed from PACER on April 21.