Hacker who broke into DOE’s network arrested
JUN 20, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.026115
Threat Post : The Justice Department has indicted 23-year-old Andrew James Miller of Devon, Pennsylvania, and his colleagues with hacking into computers belonging to the Energy Department, the University of Massachusetts, and other organizations and selling access to those systems over the past four years. As part of his operations he offered an undercover FBI agent access to a supercomputer at DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center for $50,000. The systems were accessed by the theft and use of credentials of legitimate users. Miller is charged on four counts: conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and access device fraud. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison.
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Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org
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