A US man has been jailed for six months for a 2001 attack on the web systems of space agency NASA which cost $200,000 to fix. . Gregory Aaron Herns, 21, from Portland, Oregon, hacked into the network at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to store movies he had downloaded. The intrusion caused systems to crash and took technicians hours to fix, according to reports. In court last Friday, Herns admitted his guilt and apologised for the inconvenience he caused. "These actions took place years ago and are behind me. I've moved on since," he told US District Judge Anna Brown, AP reports. Herns, a computer science student at Mt. Hood Community College, was ordered to pay compensation. Judge Brown also imposed an order restricting his use of computers for three years. The link for this article located at John Leyden is no longer available. . Liam Christie Smith, 22, hailing from Seattle, Washington, infiltrated the database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, incurring expenses of $300K.. NASA Cyber Crime, Computer Intrusion, Network Breach, Hacking Case. . Joe Shakespeare
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