A NASA OFFICER ACCUSED OF HACKING A BANK ACCOUNT FROM SPACE. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

Cybersecurity incidents could happen even in outer space. According to leaked documents, a federal grand jury has indicted an astronaut’s estranged wife on charges of a fake claiming, after she assured that her bank account was accessed from the International Space Station.

The defendant Summer Worden, 44, is now facing two counts of making materially false, fictitious and maliciously intended statements; one of the charges has been presented by the Federal Trade Commission, while the other was presented by NASA Office of Inspector General.

Worden is still married to astronaut Anne McClain, who is not explicitly named in the indictment, but several media have reported she was stationed at the International Space Station during the dates listed in the court’s documents; on the other hand, several national reports about this legal affair actually name the astronaut.

According to prosecutors, Worden intentionally made false statements before the Federal Trade Commission last March 2019, when she assured that she created a new checking account during September 2018 and had changed her passwords “aiming to prevent her wife could access to her financial status and transactions history”.

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