A hacker posted the non-public knowledge of a number of of his hacking victims on his Instagram account named @ihackthegovernment, in line with a court docket doc.
Final week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded responsible to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s digital doc submitting system. On the time, there have been no particulars in regards to the specifics of the hacking crimes Moore was admitting to.
On Friday, a newly filled document — first noticed by Court Watch’s Seamus Hughes — revealed extra particulars about Moore’s hacks. Per the submitting, Moore not solely hacked into the Supreme Court docket programs, but additionally the community of AmeriCorp, a authorities company that runs stipend volunteer packages; and the programs of the Division of Veterans Affairs, which supplies healthcare and welfare to army veterans.
Moore accessed these programs utilizing stolen credentials of customers who had been licensed to entry them. As soon as he gained entry to these victims’ accounts, Moore accessed and stole their private knowledge and posted some on-line to his Instagram account: @ihackthegovernment.
Within the case of the Supreme Court docket sufferer, recognized as GS, Moore posted their title and “present and previous digital submitting information.”
Within the case of the AmeriCorps sufferer, recognized as SM, Moore boasted that he had entry to the group’s servers and revealed the sufferer’s “title, date of start, electronic mail deal with, residence deal with, cellphone quantity, citizenship standing, veteran standing, service historical past, and the final 4 digits of his social safety quantity.”
And, within the case of the sufferer on the Division of Veterans Affairs, recognized as HW, Moore posted the sufferer’s identifiable well being data “when he despatched an affiliate a screenshot from HW’s MyHealtheVet account that recognized HW and confirmed the drugs he had been prescribed.”
In line with the court docket doc, Moore faces a most sentence of 1 12 months in jail and a most high-quality of $100,000.
