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Former Employee Charged With Attempted Cyber Attack on Department of Energy

Tuesday, May 12th, 2015

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Former Employee Charged With Attempted Cyber Attack on Department of Energy

The U.S. government charged Charles Harvey Eccleston, a former employee of the Department of Energy (DoE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), with four felony charges connected with an attempted email “spear-phishing” attack in January 2015 targeting Department of Energy employee email accounts, the Department of Justice said on Friday.According to an earlier-filed affidavit, the attack was intended to cause damage to the computer network of the Department of Energy via a computer virus Eccleston believed was being delivered…

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