[pchelpers] News:Swedish Hacker Indicted for Computer Break-Ins

By Frederick Lane 
May 6, 2009 3:18PM 

A Swedish hacker who goes by Stakkato has been indicted for illegal
access and theft for computer break-ins at the Ames Research Center and
Cisco Systems. But Philip Gabriel Pettersson may not be extradited to
the U.S. Stakkato's intrusions are examples of a growing cybersecurity
threat for the U.S. government and American corporations.

A 21-year-old Swedish man named Philip Gabriel Pettersson, aka Stakkato,
has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of
California on three counts of illegal intrusion and two counts of
trade-secret theft, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. 

The indictment alleges that on two occasions, Pettersson unlawfully
gained access to computers at the Ames Research Center and the NASA
Advanced Supercomputing Division at Moffett Field, Calif. It also
asserts that the defendant broke into the network of Cisco Systems of
San Jose, Calif., and stole some Cisco Internetwork Operating System
code.

Reports vary on what precisely Pettersson stole from Cisco, but
according to the DOJ statement, the company does "not believe that any
customer information, partner information, or financial systems were
affected."

More here:
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0220025VW3NG&full_skip=1
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