A Tennessee man pleaded responsible on Friday to hacking the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’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 Division of Veterans Affairs digital platform.
U.S. District Decide Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to condemn Moore on April 17.
Moore pleaded responsible to 1 misdemeanor depend of laptop fraud, which carries a most jail sentence of 1 yr. U.S. Lawyer Jeanine Pirro’s workplace charged him final week.
In 2023, Moore used stolen credentials to hack into the Supreme Courtroom’s submitting system on 25 totally different days, a court docket submitting says. He accessed private data belonging to the particular person whose credentials he used, then posted details about the particular person on an Instagram account utilizing the deal with “@ihackedthegovernment,” based on the submitting.
Moore additionally pleaded responsible to utilizing stolen credentials to entry a person’s private info from AmeriCorps’ laptop servers and from a U.S. Marine Corps veteran’s account on the Division of Veterans Affairs’ “MyHealtheVet” platform. He posted screenshots of data that he accessed from each laptop techniques on the identical Instagram account.
