When you promote on loyalty, not competence, you generally don’t get very good people.
EscapeFacebook on
At one point in time I might have actually cared but as far as I’m concerned the bad guys are already in every corner of the government and apparently all the protections I was told that this country had against abuse of power were just lies.
jayraygel on
Squatters rights?
“the Supreme Court didn’t know he was hanging out in the system for two months, is it still trespassing.”
Kioskwar on
Does it ever feel like we obey the Supreme Court because we have to, and not because they are supremely just?
EZbreezyFREEZY on
Heheh, got em
AbstractLogic on
Oh wow, this title deserves a million upvotes. Well done.
VitaminDprived on
Excellent headline. Takes me back to my [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) days.
<insert obligatory “grandpa, is that you?” here>
AbeFromanEast on
It’s a good thing DOGE teenagers disbanded the Federal Cyber Safety Review Board. /s
ShyLeoGing on
25 Times over 3 months – How do they not have a network monitoring service? What does this say about the possibility that the government is being accessed currently? The thought of 2+ years of people doing a no knock fire sale, LOL.
Edit – The cat wanted to be part of the metwork
Dripdry42 on
I mean, what did they get? Why aren’t we asking this question here yet? Does anybody have the information they grabbed? This is unprecedented.
WeAreClouds on
Now *that’s* a headline I’m clicking on and an article I’m reading in full. 👏🏼
EffectiveEconomics on
There’s an ethical code?
Duppyguy on
Probably Trump getting ahead of the tariff decision. If the headlines start hitting SC tariff we will know.
LogicJunkie2000 on
I’d like to say they got some dirt, but ‘ol Clarence and Kavanaugh have pretty well already aired their dirty laundry and shown how bought and paid for they are
ChainsawArmLaserBear on
Can someone paste the article? That site is cancer on mobile, couldn’t make it past the full page “can we sell your personal info?”
1stUserEver on
Sub-prime court now
toofpick on
Let me guess. The password was ‘SCOTUS’
and_mine_axe on
Remember, if the President did this or ordered it through his official duties, he would not need to comply with any investigation.
RespectTheAmish on
Clarence Thomas wondering why the money from the Nigerian prince isn’t hitting his account, after he paid the bank and wire fees….
ThunderDownUNDRmyAss on
All branches were breached when DOGE was inside the network letting Russia in.
TheMericanIdiot on
I hope some insider shit gets leaked and exposes these fucks.
CaptainHawaii on
Did they make out with any data? Or was this a pen test?
dnuohxof-2 on
Our only saving grace are these people are so stupid and so proud they fall for all the phishing.
CAJMusic on
Why can’t yall hack student loans and car payments
Maxamillion-X72 on
>If the Supreme Court didn’t know he was hanging out in the system for two months, is it still trespassing? When does adverse possession kick in?
Great line from the article lol
promiscuous_horse on
Who would have thought putting the dumbest people of our society in power would result in poor quality?
accidental-poet on
I’ve owned an IT company serving businesses for nearly 20 years now. Before that, I worked corporate IT for almost another 2 decades, and before that, it was a hobby (still is 🙂 ).
The most painful part of working IT for nearly any organization, is trying to convince the C-Suites to buy a security product their company desperately needs.
I’m not trying to get rich off this sale. I’m trying to NOT subject my team to a nightmare 24/7 cleanup project that goes on for weeks/months.
Oh, and also saving your company from the embarrassment of, “Wow! That’s how they got in? Pfft amateur hour over there, eh?”
It often goes something like this:
“$250,000? That’s way too expensive. No.”
“That’s 0.000001% of your profit. You spend more on pencils per year and you don’t even use pencils.”
“NO!”
Cue Spongebob Narrator:
“Three Days Later….”
*All systems offline*
Sad, but it’s the reality of it. It sometimes takes years to fully get a client onboard in understanding what they should be spending on IT. <sigh>
csfshrink on
Chief Justice Roberts password was easily guessed. Taney2026.
ladysadi on
Supreme Court Hacked, Proving Its Cybersecurity Is As Robust As Its Ethical Code
Man pleading guilty to accessing Supreme Court database over and over again.
By Joe Patrice on January 14, 2026 1:01 pm
Remember when the Supreme Court was absolutely consumed with figuring out who leaked the Dobbs draft opinion? They assigned the Marshal to investigate, brought in outside help, and made scores of employees sign affidavits. The response was immediate, muscular, and deeply unserious. The investigation did basically everything except interview the justices, because why interview anyone with both opportunity AND motive? Say, a justice credibly accused of leaking the results of other decisions who might have feared that colleagues would water down the maximalist draft before the case came down? No need to check in on anyone like that!
A witchhunt ironically launched to defend an opinion based on witchhunters. And after several months, it inevitably fizzled. It was we’re all trying to find the guy who did this meme if the cops just accepted the man in the hot dog costume at his word.
Well, it turns out they might’ve spent less time worrying about threats from inside the building and more time assessing how easily someone could waltz in through the digital front door.
A 24-year-old from Springfield, Tennessee, named Nicholas Moore is set to plead guilty to hacking the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system. Not once or twice, but 25 times over a two-month span. If the Supreme Court didn’t know he was hanging out in the system for two months, is it still trespassing? When does adverse possession kick in?
Court Watch’s Seamus Hughes, who first spotted the filing, posted his reaction on X:

Indeed.
The filing is notably spare on details. Maybe Jeanine Pirro learned that less is more if she needed to pursue an indictment without D.C. grand jurors responding with a resounding, “Are you kidding, lady?” The former Fox News personality who now serves as U.S. Attorney has had a rough go of it in D.C., between the juries refusing to convict and judges openly questioning whether her office understands basic Fourth Amendment principles — but now she’s found a case where the defendant is just going to plead guilty and save her the risk of another embarrassing fail.
The charge itself rests on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a statute prosecutors love the way DIYers love duct tape. The CFAA is intended to put sophisticated hackers in prison, but in practice, prosecutors deploy it whenever a computer makes someone feel bad. Its vague “unauthorized access” language has become a hammer used against people for logging into computers when company policy should have blocked access. It’s a computer crime law written for an era where our grasp of the technology came from movies like The Net, with that girl from the bus.
Did Moore maliciously hack into the system, or did he just walk blithely through an open door? Unfortunately, it wouldn’t matter much under the CFAA. Prosecutors told TechCrunch they “cannot provide any more information that hasn’t already been made public.” But based on the bare-bones of the Information, the defendant only gained access to the electronic filing system as opposed to the Court’s emails or document management system. Moore presumably wasn’t getting access to internal deliberations or Clarence Thomas’s next billionaire-funded luxury vacation through the filing system.
Not to downplay the seriousness of the breach — insider access to the filing system would afford access to any sealed documents — but this doesn’t sound like the start of a future Dobbs leak.
This marks the latest humiliating incident for the federal judiciary’s cybersecurity prowess. Last August, we learned that Russian government hackers had breached the broader federal court filing system. After years of claiming that PACER was a multibillion-dollar endeavor — before we learned that it was basically a federal judiciary slush fund — the federal judiciary belatedly committed to beefing up cybersecurity. This case serves as a reminder of how behind the times the judiciary was in 2023.
Are they any better in 2026? If they approached cybersecurity with the same vim and vigor they brought to revamping the Court’s ethical code, let’s say no.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
WeeklyInterview7180 on
They would be safer with their Supreme Leader in North Korea
zhaoz on
LOL, dont worry Jenine Piro is on it. LOL
Starsoul_Ent on
I told you they were hacks.
Dragon_wryter on
I’m sure integrating Grok into the DOD will fix that right up
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Ouch. Good headline.
Hacks getting hacked.
Hey Alanis….
I haven’t read the article, but A+ headline
Edit: I have read it, and you should too!!!
When you promote on loyalty, not competence, you generally don’t get very good people.
At one point in time I might have actually cared but as far as I’m concerned the bad guys are already in every corner of the government and apparently all the protections I was told that this country had against abuse of power were just lies.
Squatters rights?
“the Supreme Court didn’t know he was hanging out in the system for two months, is it still trespassing.”
Does it ever feel like we obey the Supreme Court because we have to, and not because they are supremely just?
Heheh, got em
Oh wow, this title deserves a million upvotes. Well done.
Excellent headline. Takes me back to my [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) days.
<insert obligatory “grandpa, is that you?” here>
It’s a good thing DOGE teenagers disbanded the Federal Cyber Safety Review Board. /s
25 Times over 3 months – How do they not have a network monitoring service? What does this say about the possibility that the government is being accessed currently? The thought of 2+ years of people doing a no knock fire sale, LOL.
Edit – The cat wanted to be part of the metwork
I mean, what did they get? Why aren’t we asking this question here yet? Does anybody have the information they grabbed? This is unprecedented.
Now *that’s* a headline I’m clicking on and an article I’m reading in full. 👏🏼
There’s an ethical code?
Probably Trump getting ahead of the tariff decision. If the headlines start hitting SC tariff we will know.
I’d like to say they got some dirt, but ‘ol Clarence and Kavanaugh have pretty well already aired their dirty laundry and shown how bought and paid for they are
Can someone paste the article? That site is cancer on mobile, couldn’t make it past the full page “can we sell your personal info?”
Sub-prime court now
Let me guess. The password was ‘SCOTUS’
Remember, if the President did this or ordered it through his official duties, he would not need to comply with any investigation.
Clarence Thomas wondering why the money from the Nigerian prince isn’t hitting his account, after he paid the bank and wire fees….
All branches were breached when DOGE was inside the network letting Russia in.
I hope some insider shit gets leaked and exposes these fucks.
Did they make out with any data? Or was this a pen test?
Our only saving grace are these people are so stupid and so proud they fall for all the phishing.
Why can’t yall hack student loans and car payments
>If the Supreme Court didn’t know he was hanging out in the system for two months, is it still trespassing? When does adverse possession kick in?
Great line from the article lol
Who would have thought putting the dumbest people of our society in power would result in poor quality?
I’ve owned an IT company serving businesses for nearly 20 years now. Before that, I worked corporate IT for almost another 2 decades, and before that, it was a hobby (still is 🙂 ).
The most painful part of working IT for nearly any organization, is trying to convince the C-Suites to buy a security product their company desperately needs.
I’m not trying to get rich off this sale. I’m trying to NOT subject my team to a nightmare 24/7 cleanup project that goes on for weeks/months.
Oh, and also saving your company from the embarrassment of, “Wow! That’s how they got in? Pfft amateur hour over there, eh?”
It often goes something like this:
“$250,000? That’s way too expensive. No.”
“That’s 0.000001% of your profit. You spend more on pencils per year and you don’t even use pencils.”
“NO!”
Cue Spongebob Narrator:
“Three Days Later….”
*All systems offline*
Sad, but it’s the reality of it. It sometimes takes years to fully get a client onboard in understanding what they should be spending on IT. <sigh>
Chief Justice Roberts password was easily guessed. Taney2026.
Supreme Court Hacked, Proving Its Cybersecurity Is As Robust As Its Ethical Code
Man pleading guilty to accessing Supreme Court database over and over again.
By Joe Patrice on January 14, 2026 1:01 pm
Remember when the Supreme Court was absolutely consumed with figuring out who leaked the Dobbs draft opinion? They assigned the Marshal to investigate, brought in outside help, and made scores of employees sign affidavits. The response was immediate, muscular, and deeply unserious. The investigation did basically everything except interview the justices, because why interview anyone with both opportunity AND motive? Say, a justice credibly accused of leaking the results of other decisions who might have feared that colleagues would water down the maximalist draft before the case came down? No need to check in on anyone like that!
A witchhunt ironically launched to defend an opinion based on witchhunters. And after several months, it inevitably fizzled. It was we’re all trying to find the guy who did this meme if the cops just accepted the man in the hot dog costume at his word.
Well, it turns out they might’ve spent less time worrying about threats from inside the building and more time assessing how easily someone could waltz in through the digital front door.
A 24-year-old from Springfield, Tennessee, named Nicholas Moore is set to plead guilty to hacking the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system. Not once or twice, but 25 times over a two-month span. If the Supreme Court didn’t know he was hanging out in the system for two months, is it still trespassing? When does adverse possession kick in?
Court Watch’s Seamus Hughes, who first spotted the filing, posted his reaction on X:

Indeed.
The filing is notably spare on details. Maybe Jeanine Pirro learned that less is more if she needed to pursue an indictment without D.C. grand jurors responding with a resounding, “Are you kidding, lady?” The former Fox News personality who now serves as U.S. Attorney has had a rough go of it in D.C., between the juries refusing to convict and judges openly questioning whether her office understands basic Fourth Amendment principles — but now she’s found a case where the defendant is just going to plead guilty and save her the risk of another embarrassing fail.
The charge itself rests on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a statute prosecutors love the way DIYers love duct tape. The CFAA is intended to put sophisticated hackers in prison, but in practice, prosecutors deploy it whenever a computer makes someone feel bad. Its vague “unauthorized access” language has become a hammer used against people for logging into computers when company policy should have blocked access. It’s a computer crime law written for an era where our grasp of the technology came from movies like The Net, with that girl from the bus.
Did Moore maliciously hack into the system, or did he just walk blithely through an open door? Unfortunately, it wouldn’t matter much under the CFAA. Prosecutors told TechCrunch they “cannot provide any more information that hasn’t already been made public.” But based on the bare-bones of the Information, the defendant only gained access to the electronic filing system as opposed to the Court’s emails or document management system. Moore presumably wasn’t getting access to internal deliberations or Clarence Thomas’s next billionaire-funded luxury vacation through the filing system.
Not to downplay the seriousness of the breach — insider access to the filing system would afford access to any sealed documents — but this doesn’t sound like the start of a future Dobbs leak.
This marks the latest humiliating incident for the federal judiciary’s cybersecurity prowess. Last August, we learned that Russian government hackers had breached the broader federal court filing system. After years of claiming that PACER was a multibillion-dollar endeavor — before we learned that it was basically a federal judiciary slush fund — the federal judiciary belatedly committed to beefing up cybersecurity. This case serves as a reminder of how behind the times the judiciary was in 2023.
Are they any better in 2026? If they approached cybersecurity with the same vim and vigor they brought to revamping the Court’s ethical code, let’s say no.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
They would be safer with their Supreme Leader in North Korea
LOL, dont worry Jenine Piro is on it. LOL
I told you they were hacks.
I’m sure integrating Grok into the DOD will fix that right up
Release the hacked TRUMP files!
What an absolutely ridiculous headline