In the U.S., McKinnon faces charges in connection with a series of cyber attacks. Officials allege that he stole passwords, attacked military networks and wrought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer damage.
A top London court on Wednesday refused to block the extradition to the U.S. of British hacker Gary McKinnon, 42. McKinnon allegedly hacked into nearly 100 U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA computer systems between February 2001 and March 2002 and allegedly caused $900,000 in damage. McKinnon has not denied that he hacked into the computers, but instead said he did so while hunting down information that the U.S. government was concealing the existence of UFOs. McKinnon does, however, dispute that he caused such a high dollar amount in damage.
McKinnon was arrested in 2002, after software used in his hacks were linked to his girlfriend's email account.
Britain's House of Lords' decision Wednesday to not block McKinnon's extradition was his last legal option in the UK, but his lawyer has vowed to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in France. McKinnon's legal team alleges that he was threatened by an American official, who said he would serve a lengthy sentence here if he fought the extradition.
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