In 1999, a Florida teen hacked NASA, accessed source code of ISS and forced the world's most powerful space agency to shut down some systems for 21 days

In the summer of 1999, a teenager in Florida managed to break into computers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He was only 15. Using the online name “c0mrade,” Jonathan James accessed 13 NASA computers over two days and downloaded proprietary software that NASA valued at about $1.7 million. The software supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including systems involved in controlling temperature and humidity.

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