BAE Systems Security Incident Halts U.S. Bankruptcy Noticing

Overview

• The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts says BAE Systems’ contractor-run Bankruptcy Noticing Center is offline and all access to its BNC websites and services is unavailable.
• BAE Systems has acknowledged a security incident limited to the BNC environment and says it is investigating and working to restore operations.
• The outage has stopped the BNC from producing and distributing bankruptcy notices and has taken the National Creditor Registration Service offline so creditor mailing lists cannot be generated.
• Courts continue to accept new filings and some electronic filing notifications still go out, but paper and electronic notices routed through the BNC since early October have not been delivered.
• Officials have not disclosed what caused the incident, when it began, or whether any court data was accessed, raising questions about third-party risk from contractor‑operated court systems.