Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Repeatedly Hacking Supreme Court’s Filing System

According to Associated Press, a Tennessee man named Nicholas Moore, 24, from Springfield, pleaded guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s filing system more than two dozen times and to illegally accessing records from AmeriCorps and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He admitted to one misdemeanor count of computer fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of one year, and U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell is scheduled to sentence him on 17 April.

The filing notes that in 2023 Moore used stolen credentials to hack the Supreme Court’s filing system on 25 different days, accessed personal records belonging to the person whose credentials were used, and posted information about that person on Instagram under the handle “@ihackedthegovernment.” He also pleaded guilty to using stolen credentials to access a user’s information

from AmeriCorps’ servers and a Department of Veterans Affairs’ MyHealtheVet platform, with screenshots posted to the same Instagram account. Moore’s case was charged by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office.