BAE Systems Security Incident Disrupts US Bankruptcy Court Notices
Summary
A security incident affecting BAE Systems’ Bankruptcy Noticing Center has stopped federal bankruptcy courts from sending notices since October 9. The cause, any data compromise, and a restoration date remain unknown.
Key points
- The Administrative Office of the US Courts said the incident made BNC systems, websites, and the related noticing process unavailable.
- The outage has prevented courts from generating and sending notices, including creditor mailing lists through the National Creditor Registration Service.
- Courts said paper and electronic notices issued through the center since October 9 have not been delivered; electronic filing notifications continue.
- Courts continue to accept filings and open new cases.
- BAE Systems said the security incident is isolated to the BNC system and that it is working with the Administrative Office to restore services.
- Neither BAE nor the judiciary has disclosed the cause, whether it was a cyberattack, or whether data was compromised; there is no estimated restoration date.
Article Details
- Victim Organization
- BAE Systems
- Incident Type
- Security incident affecting the infrastructure that operates the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), causing an outage. Whether it was a cyberattack is unknown.
- Operational Impact
- BNC access, websites, and notice-processing systems were unavailable. Bankruptcy courts could not generate or send notices through the center, and the National Creditor Registration Service was offline. Paper and electronic notices issued through the center since October 9 had not been delivered. Electronic filing notifications continued, and courts continued accepting filings and opening cases. Restoration timing was not estimated.
- Claim Status
- confirmed