{"id":7940,"date":"2009-05-06T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-06T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:29:00","slug":"swede-indicted-for-hacking-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/7940-swede-indicted-for-hacking-nasa.html","title":{"rendered":"Swede indicted for hacking NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old Swede was indicted on Tuesday on charges of hacking into the computer systems of NASA and US networking giant Cisco, the US Justice Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Gabriel Pettersson, also known as &#8220;Stakkato,&#8221; was indicted on charges of intrusion and misappropriating trade secrets, the Justice Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson was accused in the five-count indictment of breaking into the computer system and network of San Jose, California-based Cisco in May 2004 and stealing operating system code.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly broke into computers belonging to the US space agency NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center and the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division in Moffett Field, California, in May and October of the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department did not provide Pettersson&#8217;s current whereabouts but said it will &#8220;continue to work cooperatively with the Swedish authorities on the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said the maximum penalty for each charge of intrusion and theft of trade secrets is 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old Swede was indicted on Tuesday on charges of hacking into the computer systems of NASA and US networking giant Cisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}