A Tennessee man has pleaded responsible to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s digital submitting system and breaching accounts on the AmeriCorps U.S. federal company and the Division of Veterans Affairs.
Federal prosecutors mentioned that 24-year-old Nicholas Moore, of Springfield, Tennessee, had accessed the Supreme Court docket’s restricted digital submitting system not less than 25 occasions between August and October 2023 utilizing stolen credentials.
Moreover, he generally logged into the Supreme Court docket’s methods a number of occasions per day utilizing the identical compromised credentials.
Moore allegedly bragged in regards to the breaches on Instagram, posting screenshots containing victims’ names and submitting system particulars from the Supreme Court docket account to an account named @ihackedthegovernment.
“On three events, Moore posted screenshots to his Instagram account, @ihackedthegovernment, of his sufferer’s Supreme Court docket submitting system particulars together with the sufferer’s title and different info,” the Justice Division mentioned on Friday.
He additionally used compromised MyAmeriCorps credentials to entry a second sufferer’s AmeriCorps account seven occasions between August and October 2023, acquiring private info from the company’s servers (together with title, date of delivery, e mail deal with, dwelling deal with, cellphone quantity, citizenship standing, veteran standing, service historical past, and the final 4 digits of his social security quantity), and leaking it on the identical Instagram account.
Moore additionally used stolen login credentials from a U.S. Marine Corps veteran to entry the Division of Veterans Affairs’ My HealtheVet on-line private well being file (PHR) portal on 5 events between September and October 2023. The Division of Veterans Affairs additionally operates the most important built-in well being care system within the nation, offering care at 1,380 well being care amenities throughout the USA.
“The hack allowed Moore to entry the veteran’s non-public well being info together with prescribed medicines and different intimate information,” prosecutors mentioned in courtroom paperwork. “Moore then posted the veterans’ well being info to @ihackedthegovernment and boasted about having access to the VA’s servers.”
Moore confessed to 1 rely of laptop fraud, a misdemeanor carrying a most one-year jail sentence and a $100,000 advantageous.
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