There is at least one document among the files currently released in which redacted text can be viewed through copy and paste.

Soon after the U.S. Department of Justice released a batch of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in late December 2025, social media users claimed the text hidden by redactions ...

The Justice Department’s attempt to redact sensitive information from the Epstein files has quickly unraveled after people online discovered an easy way to read what’s behind many of those black boxes ...

Amateur hackers are using Photoshop to undo redactions in files released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The latest 11,034-document dump under the Epstein Files Transparency ...

The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein case files was supposed to balance public transparency with privacy and safety. Instead, it has exposed a basic failure of digital redaction, as users discovered ...

Amid huge row over the recently released batch of documents from US Department of Justice’s extensive Jeffrey Epstein files, a new report by The New York Times has revealed that some of the redacted ...

The Epstein files have been hacked. Updated December 26 with previous examples of PDF document redaction failures, as well as warnings about malware associated with some Epstein Files distributions ...