Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/23/romanian_nasa_hacker_jailed/
Romanian who hacked NASA spared cooler stint
If you can't do the time, well, do the crime anyway
Posted in Security, 23rd January 2012 09:27 GMT
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A Romanian hacker who admitted breaking into NASA's network has avoided jail, receiving a three-year suspended prison sentence instead.
Robert Butyka, 26, from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, still faces a civil lawsuit over disputed damages of $500,000 against the space agency's computer systems in a case due to be heard in March. Butyka, who was arrested by Romanian cyber-cops back in November, admitted hacking into NASA's network in December 2010 at a hearing earlier this month prior to a sentencing hearing this week where he was put on probation for seven years.
Local reports of the sentencing hearing (in Romanian) can be found here [1]. Commentary on the arguably lenient punishment received by Butyka, and how a how US hacker convicted of similar charges might fare, can be found in post of Sophos' Naked Security blog here [2]. ®
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- http://news.google.co.uk/news/more?hl=ro&gl=uk&q=Robert+Butyka&gs_upl=19951l19951l0l20840l1l1l0l0l0l0l178l178l0.1l1l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dsQlooGGJY7XblMj3xR3-0lY6FQJM&ei=hnQZT--5BZGAhQe-sJG9DA&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=4&ved=0CD0QqgIwAw
- http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/20/romanian-nasa-hacker-gets-suspended-three-year-sentence