Feb 27, 2014 04:48 PM EST
Hacker Charged With Stealing, Unveiling Federal Reserve Information

A man from the U.K. has been charged with hacking into U.S. Federal Reserve computer servers, according to Reuters.

Lauri Love, of Suffolk, England, was charged with stealing and publicly unveiling personal information of people who use them.

He was also charged with one count each of aggravated identity theft and computer hacking, according to Reuters.

The defendant was arrested this past October in England.

Love was charged by U.S. and British authorities with hacking and stealing data from a number of different U.S. government computer systems.

He has been accused of going after the Army, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department, and NASA.

His attacks resulted in "millions of dollars in damages to the government victims," according to CNN, citing New Jersey prosecutors.

Love faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison on the hacking charge and two years on the identity theft charge.

He is not currently in custody on these charges however. 

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