BAE Systems has restored the federal judiciary’s Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) and says no data was taken in the cybersecurity incident that knocked it offline for more than two weeks.
“BAE Systems, Inc., working closely with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), has resumed operations of the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) system. No other systems were affected. No data was extracted. There was no breach of any PII,” a BAE Systems, Inc. spokesperson told SecurityWeek.
The BNC, which BAE operates under contract with the judiciary, is the channel through which all federal bankruptcy courts in the US send their notices. Notices stopped flowing through the center around October 9.
When the incident first came to light, neither BAE nor the judiciary addressed whether any data had been compromised. BAE’s new statement still leaves out what caused the incident and whether it was a cyberattack.
On October 27, the Administrative Office of the US Courts confirmed that, according to BAE, the problems had been fixed and the BNC was available again.
Bankruptcy court notices show the center came back on October 26 and began clearing the delayed notices, oldest first.
In response to the outage, the Judicial Conference declared a “Bankruptcy Rules emergency” on October 22. The declaration lets bankruptcy judges push back deadlines, pause time periods and issue related orders to deal with the fallout.
No ransomware or other cybercrime group appears to have publicly claimed responsibility for the incident.
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