UFO Hack...
August 2008
UFO hack looked like terrorist attack. After the computer network at the Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey was breached and crashed just a few weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, investigators thought it might be part of a larger al-Qaeda plot against the U.S. Investigators worked around the clock to figure out who had been in and out of the system that runs the weapons station for about five months, stealing passwords, installing remote access software, deleting data, and ultimately shutting down the network of 300 computers for an entire week. That weeklong shutdown meant that for that period of time – in the aftermath of attacks on the U.S. – the station could not replenish munitions and supplies to the Atlantic fleet. After throwing critical resources at the probe when the government was already investigating not only the 9/11 attacks but the anthrax killings, investigators did not track the breach to al-Qaeda. They tracked it to an unemployed system administrator in the U.K., who was subsequently charged with hacking into 92 computer systems at the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense, and NASA. His last appeal against extradition to the U.S. has now been dismissed by a British court.
UFO hack looked like terrorist attack. After the computer network at the Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey was breached and crashed just a few weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, investigators thought it might be part of a larger al-Qaeda plot against the U.S. Investigators worked around the clock to figure out who had been in and out of the system that runs the weapons station for about five months, stealing passwords, installing remote access software, deleting data, and ultimately shutting down the network of 300 computers for an entire week. That weeklong shutdown meant that for that period of time – in the aftermath of attacks on the U.S. – the station could not replenish munitions and supplies to the Atlantic fleet. After throwing critical resources at the probe when the government was already investigating not only the 9/11 attacks but the anthrax killings, investigators did not track the breach to al-Qaeda. They tracked it to an unemployed system administrator in the U.K., who was subsequently charged with hacking into 92 computer systems at the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense, and NASA. His last appeal against extradition to the U.S. has now been dismissed by a British court.
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