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Cyberattack on contractor disrupts US federal bankruptcy court notices

A cyberattack targeting government contractor BAE Systems has disrupted the notice production system used by US federal bankruptcy courts. The Administrative Office of the US Courts reported that the incident has halted all production of bankruptcy notices. The full duration of the outage and the extent of any data impact have not been publicly confirmed.

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3 differing positions reported on attribution across 3 publishers; unresolved.
  • therecordcontractor
  • bleepingcomputerBAE Systems
  • telegramמתקפת סייבר
2 differing positions reported on location across 2 publishers; unresolved.
  • therecordFederal
  • bleepingcomputerUS
WhereUnited States
37.601, -92.716 ±400 km
First reported8 days ago
Published2026-10-17 02:39 UTC
Sources3
How this travelled.
Reports3Independent tellings3
3 independently corroborated tellings.

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Global Event Monitor. Cyberattack on contractor disrupts US federal bankruptcy court notices. 2026-10-17T02:39:58.999Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:6199. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-10-16/bae-systems-cyberattack-disrupts-us-federal-court-operations-b6d43412

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