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2009-05-06 06:10:29
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WASHINGTON (AFP) A 21-year-old Swede was indicted on charges of hacking into
the computer systems of NASA and US networking giant Cisco, the US Justice
Department said.
Philip Gabriel Pettersson, also known as "Stakkato," was indicted on charges of
intrusion and misappropriating trade secrets, the Justice Department said in a
statement.
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.
He allegedly broke into computers belonging to the US space agency NASA's Ames
Research Center and the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division in Moffett Field,
California, in May and October of the same year.
The Justice Department did not provide Pettersson's current whereabouts but
said it will "continue to work cooperatively with the Swedish authorities on
the case."
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 dollars.