British man charged with hacking US military networks
A British man has been arrested in England and charged by the United States and Britain with hacking into US government computer systems, including those run by the military, to steal confidential data and disrupt operations, authorities said.
Lauri Love and three co-conspirators allegedly infiltrated thousands of systems including those of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US space agency NASA and the US Environmental Protection Agency, according to a US grand jury indictment made public on Monday.
Love, 28, and the unnamed co-conspirators, including two in Australia and one in Sweden, then left "back doors" in the networks to later retrieve data, and intended that their activity "disrupt the operations and infrastructure of the United States government," according to the indictment.
