Apr 22 1998
From The Space Library
An international group of computer hackers, calling itself Masters of Downloading or MOD, announced that it had stolen key software programs from NASA. The same group had previously broken into the Pentagon's Defense Information Systems Network, claiming to have stolen enough information to "`take control' of military satellites and other systems." Although U.S. Department of Defense officials said that MOD had downloaded an application for management and record keeping, not for "anything that could perform a control function," the group claimed that its cyber attack on NASA had "stripped the U.S. space agency of its chief defense against computer intrusion." MOD had sent the stolen samples of NASA software to a computer expert who maintained a Web site devoted to information-security issues. The group, which included at least two Russian members, asserted that it had broken into NASA's system through JPL to obtain the software samples and threatened to sell the information to international terrorist groups or foreign governments.
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