Cyberattack on BAE Systems disrupts US federal bankruptcy courts

A cyberattack on contractor BAE Systems has knocked out the Bankruptcy Noticing Center, the system that produces and transmits notices for all US federal bankruptcy courts. Access to bnc.uscourts.gov, bankruptcynotices.uscourts.gov, notices.uscourts.gov and the National Creditor Registration Service is unavailable, and notice production has halted.

• Attack hit the BNC, the noticing system for all federal bankruptcy courts
• Four sites are down, including bnc.uscourts.gov and the creditor registration service
• BAE Systems says the incident is isolated to the BNC system and is under investigation
• All production of bankruptcy notices has been halted