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Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack

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• Original Reporting: The Record
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"Image: Sora Shimazaki via Pexels Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack A cyberattack on a U.S. government contractor has impacted the platform used by all federal bankruptcy courts across the country. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts published a statement on Thursday afternoon warning that a cyberattack on British multinational BAE Systems..."

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Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack

A cyberattack on a U.S. government contractor has impacted the platform used by all federal bankruptcy courts across the country. 

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts published a statement on Thursday afternoon warning that a cyberattack on British multinational BAE Systems disrupted the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) — a system that produces and transmits bankruptcy notices for all federal bankruptcy courts.

“The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has been in communication with the impacted courts and is also coordinating with BAE Systems. BAE is actively investigating this incident and working to restore operations,” officials said. 

“As a result of the incident, all access to the BNC systems and websites that BAE operates on behalf of the judiciary and the related bankruptcy noticing process are unavailable at this time, including bnc.uscourts.gov, bankruptcynotices.uscourts.gov, notices.uscourts.gov, and the National Creditor Registration Service.”

The incident has halted all production of bankruptcy notices as well. The office did not respond to requests for further details about the nature of the incident or whether data was stolen.

BAE Systems is one of the largest defense contractors in the world and is deeply embedded in the U.S. Government — providing aerospace, weapons and information security services across several federal departments. 

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