Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data on Instagram

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A 24-year-old Tennessee man pleaded guilty on January 16, 2026, to repeatedly hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic filing system and illegally accessing systems belonging to AmeriCorps and the Department of Veterans Affairs, then posting stolen personal data on his Instagram account.

Nicholas Moore, of Springfield, Tennessee, admitted in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to using stolen credentials to breach the Supreme Court’s system on 25 different days in 2023. He accessed and stole personal records from the victim whose credentials he used, then posted the information on an Instagram account under the handle “@ihackedthegovernment” (also reported as “@ihackthegovernment”).

Moore also pleaded guilty to similar unauthorized access of a user’s personal information from AmeriCorps’ servers and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran’s account on the VA’s “MyHealtheVet” platform. He posted screenshots of the accessed data from both systems on the same Instagram account.

He pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of unauthorized access to a computer. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell is scheduled to sentence Moore on April 17, 2026.