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U.S. sues Swedish NASA-hacker
By Fabio on Thursday May 7th 2009 05:21 | Category: Web
A jury in the U.S. has accused a 21-year-old Swedish man would have occurred in systems of the NASA. Sweden has a policy not to extradite citizens, but according to the indictment, the man being prosecuted in Sweden.
The Swede, Philip Gabriel Pettersson, would in 2004 under the name Stakkato computers and Cisco at the U.S. Space Agency NASA are penetrated. The boy, then a teenager, Cisco has inflicted damage to systems and also trade secrets stolen from the manufacturer, the source of the Internetwork Operating System of the network business.
A week later Petterson has accessed the Advanced Supercomputing Division of NASA and the space of a research organization in Silicon Valley. It is unknown how he is home, but American prosecutors are angry about this break because it would involve systems a crucial role to play in space missions.
'Stakkato' for these hacks by a jury is officially charged, writes The Wall Street Journal. It is unknown how the authorities track him come. About a possible extradition is the man, according to Daily Tech not to worry: the Swedish government provides its citizens not from abroad. But he likely to be prosecuted in Sweden under the Amerindian American indictment, but as long as he is not the U.S. or traveling to a country that an extradition treaty with it, do not be afraid to Petterson in an American cell to arrive .
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