A man pleads guilty to hacking into the US Supreme Court’s filing system

A Springfield, Tennessee, resident is expected to plead guilty to hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic filing system dozens of times over several months.

Prosecutors say that between August and October 2023, Nicholas Moore, 24, “intentionally accessed a computer without authorization over the course of 25 different days, thereby obtaining information from a protected computer,” prosecutors say. Court document.

As of this writing, there are no further details about exactly what information Moore accessed, nor how he got there. Moore is due to plead guilty in court via video link on Friday.

When contacted, a spokesperson for the US District Court for the District of Columbia, which brought the charges against Moore, told TechCrunch that prosecutors could not provide any other information that had not already been made public.

US Justice Department spokesmen did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for more information about the case.

Moore’s attorney, Eugene Ohm, did not respond to an email seeking comment.

The case It was spotted for the first time by Court Watch Seamus Hughesa researcher and journalist who monitors court documents.

This is one of several occasions in recent years when hackers have breached US court systems. The Administrative Office of the US Courts, which oversees the federal judiciary, said in August that it had done so It has strengthened its cybersecurity defenses After a cyber attack on its electronic court records system.

The hackers were working for the Russian government Blame the violation.

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