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Moore was charged with fraud and related activity in connection with computers
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“Moore intentionally accessed the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system without authorization using the stolen credentials of an authorized user (‘GS’) on 25 different days, sometimes returning to the site multiple times on the same day,” according to a government court filing.
Key facts
- On July 29, August 18, and November 28, 2023, Moore publicly posted on his Instagram account, which used the handle ‘,’ screenshots of GS’s home page on the Supreme Court electronic filing system
- On October 13, 2023, Moore disclosed HW’s individually identifiable health information when he sent an associate a screenshot from HW’s MyHealtheVet account that identified HW and showed
- Moore’s guilty plea in January related to “hacking the electronic filing system of the US Supreme Court at least 25 times and additionally hacking accounts at AmeriCorps and the Veterans
- The US government had requested 36 months of probation for the unauthorized access that took place in 2023 from August to October
Summary
A 25-year-old Tennessee man avoided prison time after pleading guilty to accessing government systems with stolen login credentials and boasting of the deed on an Instagram account with the handle,. Defendant Nicholas Moore accessed user accounts on the US Supreme Court’s electronic filing system, AmeriCorps, and the Veterans Administration Health System. The US government had requested 36 months of probation for the unauthorized access that took place in 2023 from August to October. The government sentencing recommendation did not request any jail time or a fine. “I made a mistake,” Nicholas Moore told US District Judge Beryl Howell today, appearing remotely at a sentencing hearing, according to The Hill. Moore’s guilty plea in January related to “hacking the electronic filing system of the US Supreme Court at least 25 times and additionally hacking accounts at AmeriCorps and the Veterans Administration Health System,” US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said at the time.
Clearly visible to the public in the screenshots were GS’s name and a list of all of GS’s current and past electronic filing records,” the court filing said. Moore posted Marine veteran’s personal info Moore is also said to have used stolen login credentials of a US Marine Corps veteran identified as “HW” to access the Department of Veterans Affairs ‘Their HealtheVet’ platform on five different days. “On October 13, 2023, Moore disclosed HW’s individually identifiable health information when he sent an associate a screenshot from HW’s MyHealtheVet account that identified HW and showed the medications he had been prescribed,” the government said.