Supreme Court hacker posted stolen government data on Instagram

A hacker posted the personal data of several of his hacking victims on his Instagram account, @ihackthegovernment, according to a court document.

Last week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeated hacking of the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic filing system. At the time, there were no details about the specifics of the hacking crimes Moore was admitting to.

On Friday, a newly filed document – ​​first spotted by Court Watch’s Seamus Hughes – revealed more details about Moore’s hacks. According to the filing, Moore hacked not only the Supreme Court’s systems, but also the network of AmeriCorps, a government agency that runs volunteer pay programs, and the systems of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care and welfare assistance to veterans.

Moore accessed these systems using the stolen credentials of users authorized to access them. Once he gained access to these victims’ accounts, Moore accessed and stole their personal data and posted some of it online on his Instagram account: @ihackthegovernment.

In the case of the Supreme Court victim, identified as GS, Moore released her name and “current and past electronic records.”

In the case of the AmeriCorps victim, identified as SM, Moore bragged about having access to the organization’s servers and posted his “name, date of birth, email address, home address, phone number, citizenship status, veteran status, service history, and the last four digits of his Social Security number.”

And, in the case of the Department of Veterans Affairs victim, identified as HW, Moore posted the victim’s identifiable health information “when he sent an associate a screenshot of HW’s MyHealtheVet account that identified HW and showed the medications he had been prescribed.”

According to the court document, Moore faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a maximum fine of $100,000.