A week after the release of the latest tranche of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, scrutiny of the powerful people named in them has intensified, as the Department of Justice said it was working to correct mistakes in redaction that left the identities of many abuse victims exposed.

In a letter on Thursday to federal judges in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, the Justice Department said its personnel were "working around the clock to run additional searches for documents that may require additional redaction."

DOJ acknowledged "victims and victim counsel have identified new victims and new identifiers (such as nicknames, email addresses, and family names), which are then routed into additional searches by the Department to identify documents that may require further redaction."

The letter comes after some of Epstein's victims have expressed anger after being unintentionally identified due to redaction errors by the Department of Justice, which sought to hide their information by blacking out names, emails and faces from photos and video.

In some cases, names required by law to be hidden often appeared in whole or in part in the documents, with the first names and last names appearing in separate documents, making identification easy. The Justice Department subsequently removed access to some pages and Freedom of Information Act documents that had initially been published.

Annie Farmer, who has been outspoken about Epstein and the abuse she experienced, spoke with NPR's Scott Detrow on "All Things Considered" after the files were released.

"If you see some of these documents where there will be a list of 50 names and one is redacted, you know, there's just no explanation for how it could have been done so poorly" Farmer said.

"They've had victims' names for a very long time. I don't think this is just about rushing to get this information out. It feels like they want us to give up on transparency, and it's extremely problematic how they've gone about doing this."

Farmer said the accusers will not give up on their calls for transparency.

Danielle Bensky, who spoke to NPR last year about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Epstein, is one of many victims whose name was left unredacted in some parts of the latest document dump. Bensky said on NewsNation the Justice Department's handling of the case was "egregious."