The Biggest hacker has to spend 45 Years in prison
Gary McKinnon is a 41-year-old British hacker that was arrested and released in 2002 when the US Metropolitan Police found evidence about several hack attempts over secret information stored by the authorities.
The hacker caused almost $700.000 worth of damages after he managed to connect to several classified networks and view secret information stored on the computers, reported Viruslist.
The hacker decided to appeal the court’s order that sends him to prison for almost 45 years, requiring his extradition to UK.
“41-year-old McKinnon was originally arrested and then released by the Metropolitan Police in 2002, but the US authorities, which lodged an extradition request, then pursued his case. Despite those claims, and his own admission of being a “bumbling computer nerd”, the US authorities maintain Mr McKinnon caused some $700,000 worth of damages and rendered key defense computer networks inoperable,” the same publication reported.
Gary McKinnon added he was only looking for evidence about the existence of the UFOs and he managed to connect to the computers using a blank password.
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