'Biggest military hacker' loses suit
China Daily | Updated: 2007-04-04 06:42
A British computer expert accused by Washington of the "biggest military hack of all time" lost an appeal yesterday against plans to extradite him to the United States to stand trial.
Gary McKinnon was arrested in 2002 following charges by US prosecutors that he illegally accessed 97 government computers - including Pentagon, US army, navy and NASA systems - causing $700,000 worth of damage.
Two of Britain's leading judges rejected a High Court challenge by McKinnon to an earlier court order backed by Britain's Home Secretary that he should be extradited.
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