A resident of Springfield, Tennessee, is expected to plead guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system dozens of times over several months. Prosecutors say that between August and October 2023, 24-year-old Nicholas Moore intentionally accessed a computer without authorization on 25 different days and obtained information from a protected computer.
As of this writing, there are no further details about exactly what information Moore accessed, nor how he accessed it. Moore is scheduled to plead guilty in court by 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, stated that prosecutors cannot provide any more information beyond what has already been made public. Spokespeople for the U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for more information about the case. Moore’s lawyer, Eugene Ohm, did not respond to an email seeking comment.
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 U.S. court systems. The Administrative Office of the U.S. 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. Hackers working for the Russian government were blamed for that breach.