Hacker Pleads Guilty To Accessing NASA System
Source: Newsbytes
A hacker charged last year with breaking into a NASA server has pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in San Antonio to one count of intentionally accessing a federal computer without authorization, NASA said Monday. He faces a possible one-year jail term and a $100,000 fine.
Ruben Candelario, who entered his plea April 18, is scheduled to be sentenced June 20.
He was indicted a year ago on charges of hacking into the Web and e-mail server of NASA's Virginia Consortium of Engineering and Science at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. He also was charged with possessing and trafficking in computer passwords.
