US court records breach: Tennessee man pleads guilty for repeated hacking

A resident of Tennessee is expected to plead guilty for hacking and illegally controlling the US Supreme Court’s electronic case filing system, which was hacked dozens of times for several months, according to court officials.

Nicolas Moore who is 24, of Springfield accessed a computer without authorisation on 25 different days and obtained information from a confidential computer between the time period of August and October, as per the authorities.

Details on what information Moore accessed are yet to be known. Moore accessed, nor how it was accessed. Moore is scheduled to plead guilty in court by video link on Friday.

A spokesperson of the Columbia district court, who brought the charges against Moore, told TechCrunch that prosecutors cannot provide any more information that hasn’t already been made public.

Hence, no were made by Moore’s lawyer and the spokesperson for the US Department of Justice when asked more information.

The case was first spotted by Court Watch’s Seamus Hughes, a researcher and journalist who monitors court documents.

This is one of several occasions in recent years in which hackers have compromised the US court system which is recorded amid global unrest. The Administrative Office of the US Courts, which oversees the federal judiciary, said in August that it had strengthened its cybersecurity defenses following a cyberattack on its electronic court records system.

The Justice Department began requiring court documents in sensitive cases to be filed on paper in January 2021 to protect against hacks of electronic filing systems.

Hackers working for the Russian government were blamed for the breach and held guilty for the crime of confidential files.

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