Hacker Pleads Guilty To Accessing NASA System

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http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176281.html

By Wilson P Dizard III, GCN
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
01 May 2002, 2:13 PM CST
 
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.

Candelario, who used the nickname skrilla, was the subject of an
investigation by the NASA Inspector General's Computer and Technology
Crimes Office and investigators of the Guadalupe, Texas, Sheriffs
Department.



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