Hacker Charged with Breaching Multiple Government Computers and Stealing Thousands of Employee and Financial Records
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Lauri Love, 29, of Stradishall, England, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of conspiracy, causing damage to a protected computer, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, beginning around October 2012, Love and his conspirators accessed without authorization protected computers belonging to DOE, HHS, U.S. Sentencing Commission, FBI's Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, Deltek, Inc. and Forte Interactive, Inc. Love and his conspirators gained unauthorized access to the protected computers by exploiting a known vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion, a software program designed to build and administer websites and databases.
Action Details
- Date:July 24, 2014
- Agency:U.S. Attorney
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Enforcement Types:
- Criminal and Civil Actions
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