A federal grand jury has indicted a Swedish man for allegedly hacking into computer networks at Cisco Systems and NASA.
Philip Gabriel Pettersson, a 21-year-old man known as "Stakkato," faces five counts of intrusion and trade secret theft. He's accused of stealing programming information.
Pettersson was convicted and fined by a Swedish court in 2007 for hacking networks at three Swedish universities.
At the time, he denied breaching U.S. networks and said the FBI interrogated him in 2006 about the Cisco hack. Both incidents allegedly occurred in 2004.
Sweden won't extradite its citizens to other countries, but it can prosecute citizens on behalf of foreign countries. U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco say they're working with Swedish authorities on the case.
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