Los Alamos National Laboratory: Employee Arrested For Hacking

A current employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's top nuclear weapons research facility, has been arrested on charges of computer hacking and tampering with a witness while a student, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday.. . . A current employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's top nuclear weapons research facility, has been arrested on charges of computer hacking and tampering with a witness while a student, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday.

A senior lab official stressed that all of the charges related to activity before the suspect joined the staff at Los Alamos -- which has been hit with a string of security problems -- and that there was no evidence that any of the nation's sensitive nuclear secrets had been compromised.

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