A Springfield, Tennessee, man is expected to plead guilty to breaking into the US Supreme Court’s electronic document 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 on 25 separate days and thereby obtained information from a protected computer,” according to court document.
As of this writing, there are no further details on what information Moore accessed, or how he accessed it. Moore is scheduled to plead guilty in court via video link on Friday.
When reached, a spokesperson for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which brought the charges against Moore, told TechCrunch that prosecutors cannot provide more information that has not already been made public.
Representatives for the US Department of Justice 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 detected for the first time with Court Watch’s Seamus Hughesresearcher and journalist who tracks court documents.
This is one of several cases in recent years in which hackers have compromised US judicial systems. The Administrative Office of the US Courts, which oversees the federal judiciary, said in August that it had strengthened its defenses in the area of cyber security after a cyber attack on its electronic court records system.
Hackers working for the Russian government were blamed for the breach.
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