Federal prosecutors in Tulsa say two men are charged with conspiracy to hack into Navy computer systems and more than 30 other attacks on government, business and university sites
United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. said Monday that 27-year-old Nicholas Paul Knight of Virginia and 20-year-old Daniel Trenton Krueger of Illinois were attempting to steal identities, obstruct justice and damage protected computers.
Williams claims the Navy quickly discovered the breach and identified the two suspects.
The case is being prosecuted in Tulsa because the Navy servers that were breached are located there. The men appear to have hacked a system used to manage transfers for members of all branches of the military. The system stores personal information on 220,000 service members. Knight was in the Navy.
