Romanian accused of hacking NASA appears In Court
Victor Faur appeared in court Tuesday to answer charges for hacking computers at NASA.
State prosecutors with special responsibility for organized crime outlined the case against 22-year-old Victor Faur from the western Romanian town of Arad, where the case is to be heard in the first instance.
Faur faces a maximum 12 years in prison for having violated security laws. US authorities including NASA are meanwhile claiming damages of around 2 million dollars citing the cost of updating software following the hacker attack.
Faur allegedly botneted the computers.
According to state prosecutors Faul, the son of a doctor, illegally accessed between November 2005 and September 2006 servers belonging to NASA, the US Navy, the US Energy Ministry as well as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Centre.
While in these systems he altered data, downloaded applications and installed IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communications channels in order to gain further access to information networks.
[Romanian accused of hacking into NASA computers appears in court]
