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Former U.S. government employee attempted to steal nuclear weapons secrets: Justice Department

May 9, 2015 publisher action-follows, condemn-curbs, department, energy, federal, former-employee, from-the-nrc, investigation, lawsuit, morocco, rights-groups, state

The U.S. Justice Department has charged a former employee of the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for allegedly attempting an email attack on government employees to extract sensitive information on nuclear weapons.

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Two charged with conspiracy, fraud for Photobucket.com breach

May 9, 2015 publisher california, charged-two, colorado, condemn-curbs, denver-based, energy, former-employee, from-the-nrc, investigation, lawsuit, morocco, photobucket, rights-groups, the-computer

Federal prosecutors charged two men on Friday with conspiracy and fraud after they allegedly breached the computer systems of Denver-based Photobucket and sold passwords and access to private information on the giant photo-sharing website. Brandon Bourret, 39, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, of Sunnyvale, California, were arrested at their homes, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.