WORLD IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Man Held in Hacking Involving U.S. Data
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Months after the arrest of a teenager accused of gaining access to messages from U.S. agents in North Korea, British police have charged a second man with hacking into U.S. military computers. Mathew Bevan, a 21-year-old information technology technician from Wales, has been charged with conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers and conspiracy to cause unauthorized modification to computers. A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said both charges related to computer systems operated by the U.S. military and the Lockheed Martin Corp. missile and space company.
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