U.S. government websites hacker charged
A 20-year-old California man has been charged with hacking government computers, including two agencies within the U.S. Defence Department, and defacing government websites, the U.S. attorney's office says. Robert Lyttle, of Pleasant Hill, California, was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury for hacking government computers in April 2002, the United States Attorney's Office in Northern California said. Lyttle is accused of unlawfully accessing computer systems of the Department of Defence's Logistic Information Service and Office of Health Affairs and NASA's Ames Research Centre. The charges against Lyttle carry penalties that include prison time of up 10 years and fines of up to $250,000 (133,525 pounds), the U.S. attorney's office said. Lyttle is scheduled to appear before a United States Magistrate Judge in Oakland on July 19 to be arraigned on the charges. Lyttle could not be reached for comment. The prosecution is being overseen by the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit of the United States Attorney's Office and is the result of an investigation by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Defence Criminal Investigative Service and NASA's Office of Inspector General.
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