Man Pleads Guilty To Hacking Supreme Court’s Filing System | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tennessee man pleaded responsible on Friday to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s submitting system greater than two dozen occasions, court docket data present.

Nicholas Moore, 24, of Springfield, Tennessee, additionally admitted that he illegally accessed data from AmeriCorps’ laptop servers and a Department of Veterans Affairs digital platform.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to condemn Moore on April 17.

Moore pleaded responsible to at least one misdemeanor rely of laptop fraud, which carries a most jail sentence of 1 yr. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s workplace charged him final week.

In 2023, Moore used stolen credentials to hack into the Supreme Court’s submitting system on 25 completely different days, a court docket submitting says. He accessed private data belonging to the individual whose credentials he used, then posted details about the individual on an Instagram account utilizing the deal with “@ihackedthegovernment,” based on the submitting.

Moore additionally pleaded responsible to utilizing stolen credentials to entry a consumer’s private data from AmeriCorps’ laptop servers and from a U.S. Marine Corps veteran’s account on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ “MyHealtheVet” platform. He posted screenshots of knowledge that he accessed from each laptop programs on the identical Instagram account.