Brit hacker admits he siphoned info from US military satellite network

A UK-based computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of usernames and email addresses from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, broke in and pinched the ranks, usernames and email addresses of more than 800 users of a satellite communications system and of about 30,000 satellite phones, back in June 2014. Exactly how he did it isn’t known: it could be an SQL injection or a web enumeration… the US government isn’t saying. Given it was only email contacts and usernames, we suspect Caffrey didn’t penetrate too far.

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