A hacker posted the private knowledge of a number of of his hacking victims on his Instagram account named @ihackthegovernment, in accordance with a court docket doc.
Final week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded responsible to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s digital doc submitting system. On the time, there have been no particulars in regards to the specifics of the hacking crimes Moore was admitting to.
On Friday, a newly stuffed doc — first noticed by Courtroom Watch’s Seamus Hughes — revealed extra particulars about Moore’s hacks. Per the submitting, Moore hacked not solely into the Supreme Courtroom methods, but in addition the community of AmeriCorps, a authorities company that runs stipend volunteer applications, and the methods of the Division of Veterans Affairs, which supplies healthcare and welfare to navy veterans.
Moore accessed these methods utilizing stolen credentials of customers who had been approved to entry them. As soon as he gained entry to these victims’ accounts, Moore accessed and stole their private knowledge and posted some on-line to his Instagram account: @ihackthegovernment.
Within the case of the Supreme Courtroom sufferer, recognized as GS, Moore posted their identify and “present and previous digital submitting data.”
Within the case of the AmeriCorps sufferer, recognized as SM, Moore boasted that he had entry to the group’s servers and revealed the sufferer’s “identify, date of start, electronic mail deal with, dwelling deal with, telephone quantity, citizenship standing, veteran standing, service historical past, and the final 4 digits of his social security quantity.”
And, within the case of the sufferer on the Division of Veterans Affairs, recognized as HW, Moore posted the sufferer’s identifiable well being data “when he despatched an affiliate a screenshot from HW’s MyHealtheVet account that recognized HW and confirmed the drugs he had been prescribed.”
In line with the court docket doc, Moore faces a most sentence of 1 12 months in jail and a most high quality of $100,000.
