A Tennessee man was sentenced to one year of probation after prosecutors said he illegally accessed the US Supreme Court’s online filing system and posted screenshots on a social media account titled, “I hacked the government.”
Senior Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia announced the sentence on Friday against Nicholas Moore, who pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor computer fraud charge.
Moore, 25, admitted to accessing the high court’s system on 25 different days in 2023 using an authorized user’s stolen credentials. He posted images of the user’s internal Supreme Court homepage ...
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