Gary McKinnon Gary McKinnon Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time," although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May withdrew her extradition order to the United States. McKinnon was accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period
Nahshon Even-Chaim and the two other offenders, as well as their arrest and prosecution, are contained in the book "Hackers: The Hunt for Australia’s Most Infamous Computer Cracker", co-written by Bill Apro, an AFP computer crime investigator who led the investigation, in the book "Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier" by Suelette Dreyfus and "In the Realm of the Hackers", a film by Kevin Anderson. Even-Chaim pleaded guilty to 15 charges, which involved his intrusion into computers at: After allegedly compromising computers used by computer security experts Eugene Spafford, Clifford Stoll, and Russell L. Brand (at LLNL),