Alleged members of hacking Team Digi7al arrested for violating government networks

  • 9 May 2014
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Alleged members of the hacking Team Digi7al were arrested by NCIS and charged for Hacking more than 30 government and private sites.

 
The US attorney’s Office in Tulsa charged charged two men for involvement in a anti government conspiracy, they are accused to have violated the computer systems of dozens of government and commercial organizations, including the U.S. Navy and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
 
This week  the US DoJ announced that Nicholas Knight, a 27 year old man from Virginia, who served as systems administrator in the nuclear reactor department of an aircraft carrier, and the 20 year old Illinois student, Daniel Krueger, were charged with the conspiracy count for participation to hack into the computer servers. The two are accused of having taken part in hacking operations against more 30 organizations with the purpose to steal identitiessabotage and obstruct the justice. The two are members of a hacking group known as “Team Digi7al,”, the data stolen by the group was posted online and shared via the Twitter account of Team Digi7al. Full Article

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I have a feeling we're going to be seeing more of this insider threat stuff going on.

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