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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 17, 2026

Nicholas Moore of Springfield was sentenced to one year of probation after prosecutors said he illegally accessed the U.S. 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 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia announced the sentence today, Bloomberg Law reports. Moore pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor computer fraud charge. He admitted that he accessed the high court’s system on 25 different days in 2023 using an authorized user’s stolen credentials.