FBI says space hacker got old software

While various news services have reported that a hacker stole top-secret source code used to guide US spacecraft, rockets and even the GPS satellite system, an FBI spokesperson has stated that nothing but commercially available software was taken from the US Naval Research Laboratories last Christmas Eve. The software was found in a Swedish police raid at the request of US law enforcement officials. The Swedish newspaper Expressen is reporting that the presumed hacker, known only as LEEIF, is connected to a university student in Kaiserslautern, German.

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