The Administrative Office of the US Courts said the websites and systems supporting the Bankruptcy Noticing Center were pulled offline after a cybersecurity incident, halting the production and distribution of bankruptcy notices for courts across the country. BAE Systems operates the center on behalf of the Federal Judiciary and said the incident was isolated to that system and that it was coordinating with the courts office on the response.
Access is unavailable to bnc.uscourts.gov, bankruptcynotices.uscourts.gov, notices.uscourts.gov and the National Creditor Registration Service, according to the courts announcement. The disruption began on October 9, according to the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which said it would continue accepting filings and opening cases but warned of delays in the entry and service of notices and orders. That court extended stays by an additional 30 days for cases filed on or after September 14 with an active motion to stay.
Bankruptcy notices are not a back office detail: creditors, debtors and trustees rely on them for deadlines that carry legal consequences. A nationwide pause in notice distribution therefore creates case level delay risk even where filing itself continues, and it follows a series of attacks on US public sector and court systems this year.