Man enters plea in hacking of NASA, Minn. business
A Texas man who prosecutors say hacked into the computer systems of a Minnesota company and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland has pleaded to one count of wire fraud.
Prosecutors announced that 26-year-old Jeremey Parker of Houston entered his plea on Wednesday in St. Paul. A sentencing date has not been set.
In his plea agreement, Parker admitted that from December 2008 through October 2009 he hacked into the computer networks of a subsidiary of Eden Prairie-based Digital River and stole about $275,000.
He also admitted that in September 2009 he hacked into two NASA computers that supported oceanographic data being back to Earth from satellites that was available to paying researchers.
Parker made the data freely available. NASA spent about $43,000 to repair the damage.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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