Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Hacker infiltrated government computers

The FBI confirmed Tuesday the accuracy of a New York Times report that software on routers were compromised last year by a hacker who claimed that he had <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/10/govt.computer.hacker/index.html">infiltrated systems serving U.S. military installations, research laboratories, and NASA.</A> The Times reported, and the FBI confirmed, that the focus of the investigation is a youth in Uppsala, Sweden, who has been charged as a juvenile. The Times also reported that a California researcher got taunting messages from the hacker, who called himself "Stakkato," claiming to have infiltrated computer systems at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Officials at some of those facilities confirmed to the Times that their computers had been breached but said the information obtained was insignificant.

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