Security News > 2011 > February > Man admits hacking into NASA, e-commerce servers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/24/nasa_hacker_guilty/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 24th February 2011 A Texas man has admitted hacking into servers owned by an e-commerce company and making off with about $275,000. Jeremey Parker of Houston also copped to charges of breaking into servers maintained by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and causing some $43,000 of damage. Click here to find out more! The hacking spree spanned a 10-month stretch starting in December 2008 with the breach of systems owned by SWReg. A subsidiary of Digital River of Minnesota, the company manages royalties for independent software developers. âParker hacked into SWReg's system, created the money by crediting the SWReg accounts, and then caused that money to be wire transferred to his bank account instead of the accounts of several developers,â a press release issued by the US Attorney's office in Minnesota said. The NASA servers Parker hacked gave paying members of the scientific community access to oceanic data being sent to Earth from satellites. Eventually, the data was made available to everyone. [...]