Swedish Man Indicted For Cisco And NASA Hack: Trade Secret Theft

I found this indictment particularly interesting because it reaches across to another country, so there must have been substantial coordination with foreign authorities.A federal grand jury has indicted a Swedish man for allegedly hacking into networks at Cisco Systems and NASA.

According to news reports, Philip Gabriel Pettersson, a 21-year-old man known as "Stakkato," faces five counts of intrusion and trade secret theft. He's accused of stealing programming information. Each count of intrusion and theft of trade secrets carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.

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 accuses him of breaking into the Cisco internal network and stealing some Cisco Internetwork Operating System code.

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