Do you remember the 24-year-old hacker Carmelo Miano and the breaches of the Naples Prosecutor’s Office’s accounts and computer systems? It appears something similar happened in the United States, and the other young man is exactly the same age.
A Tennessee resident will admit liability for unauthorized access to the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic case filing system, according to court documents filed in federal court.
Nicholas Moore, 24 , a native of Springfield, is accused of knowingly accessing a computer without permission on at least 25 separate occasions . The accesses allegedly occurred between August and October 2023, during which time Moore allegedly accessed the computer system used to manage and store court records.
The court appearance is scheduled for Friday and will be held via video link. The defendant is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. No details have been released yet regarding the type of information possibly viewed or obtained during the intrusions.
Neither a spokesperson for the District of Columbia Federal Court nor Moore’s attorney immediately commented on the proceedings.
The case is part of a broader context of growing concerns about the cybersecurity of the U.S. federal justice system. In recent years, court electronic filing platforms have repeatedly been targeted by cyberattacks.
Last August, the Administrative Office of the Courts announced enhanced protections for sensitive court documents, citing recent, sophisticated and persistent attacks on case management systems.
As early as January 2021, the Department of Justice required that, in proceedings considered to be the most sensitive, documentation also be filed in paper format, as a further safeguard against possible cyber breaches.
Against this backdrop, the New York Times reported in August 2025 that federal investigators had found evidence of an intrusion attributed to Russian hackers into the federal courts’ electronic filing system known as PACER.
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