British Arrest on U.S. Charges Activist Charged with Hacking US Government Database

                On October 25, 2013, British law enforcement officials, involving investigators with the Cyber Crime Unit of the National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Lauri Love, a young activist with links to the Occupy movement at his home in Suffolk, England, on charges that he hacked into U.S, government computer systems, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Army, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, in an alleged effort to steal confidential data.[1]