Man to Plead Guilty to Hacking US Supreme Court Filing System
Supreme Court hacked by Tennessee man who accessed protected filings—details on the breach and what it means for U.S. judicial security.
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Man to Plead Guilty to Hacking US Supreme Court Filing System
Supreme Court Hacked: Tennessee Man to Plead Guilty in High-Stakes Cyber Intrusion In a rare and alarming breach of U.S. judicial infrastructure, a 24-year-old from Springfield, Tennessee, is set to plead guilty to hacking the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system. Nicholas Moore allegedly infiltrated the protected network on 25 separate days between August and October 2023, raising urgent questions about cybersecurity within one of America’s most trusted institutions. While prosecutors have not disclosed what data—if any—was compromised, the incident marks one of the few known intrusions into the Supreme Court’s digital operations. Credit: Rudy Sulgan / Getty Images What We Know About the Breach So Far According to federal court documents, Moore “intentionally accessed a computer without authorization” and obtained information from a protected system used for official Supreme Court filings. The charges fall under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a key federal statute used to prosecut…
