A 25-year-old Tennessee man avoided prison time after pleading guilty to accessing government systems with stolen login credentials and publicly boasting about the intrusion on an Instagram account with the handle @ihackedthegovernment.
The defendant, Nicholas Moore, accessed user accounts on the US Supreme Court's electronic filing system, AmeriCorps, and the Veterans Administration Health System. He then posted screenshots of the users' personal information to his Instagram account. The method by which he obtained the stolen login credentials remains unclear.
Sentencing Details
Moore was sentenced to one year of probation today in US District Court for the District of Columbia. The US government had requested 36 months of probation for the unauthorized access, which occurred between August and October 2023. Notably, the government’s sentencing recommendation did not include any jail time or fines.
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