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Cyberattack at BAE Systems halts US bankruptcy notices nationwide

A cybersecurity incident at BAE Systems has knocked the Bankruptcy Noticing Center offline since 9 October, halting the production and delivery of bankruptcy notices for every federal bankruptcy court in the US while courts improvise emergency deadline relief.

By Sarah Whitfield · · 1 min read

The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington DC, headquarters of the Administrative Office of the US Courts, photographed from across Columbus Circle with its white-granite wings and glass atrium entrance.
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A cybersecurity incident at a contractor for the US federal judiciary has shut down the system that produces and delivers bankruptcy notices, forcing courts to improvise emergency measures while the contractor works to restore service.

The Administrative Office of the US Courts said on Thursday that the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), whose IT systems and websites are operated on the judiciary’s behalf by BAE Systems Inc., the US subsidiary of British defence contractor BAE Systems, was hit by a cybersecurity incident (https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-federal-bankruptcy-court-operations-disrupted-by-cybersecurity-incident-2026-10-16/). The BNC “produces and transmits bankruptcy notices for all federal bankruptcy courts around the country”, and the incident has “halted the BNC’s production and distribution of bankruptcy notices for bankruptcy courts”.

All access to bnc.uscourts.gov, bankruptcynotices.uscourts.gov, notices.uscourts.gov and the National Creditor Registration Service is unavailable. A BAE spokesperson said the company was “aware of a security incident that is isolated to the BNC system” and was “coordinating closely” with the courts; BAE declined to provide further information or an estimated recovery time (https://www.wsj.com/pro/bankruptcy/cyber-incident-halts-bankruptcy-notices-nationwide-a4a00ae5).

The outage began on 9 October, according to the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas (https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/16/attack-on-bae-managed-system-disrupts-us-bankruptcy-courts/5303487). In New York, Chief Bankruptcy Judge Jil Mazer-Marino ordered that no party would be penalised or lose legal rights for missing a deadline because of the outage, while in Texas Chief Bankruptcy Judge Brenda Rhoades extended debt-collection protection 30 days for repeat personal bankruptcy cases filed on or after 14 September. Courts continue accepting filings and processing documents, but service of notices and orders may be delayed.

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