Gary McKinnon

In 2012, Theresa May—then Home Secretary—decided to halt the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US to face trial for a similar hacking campaign, ... a result of the ruling, "there is now very little prospect of any British hacker ever finding themselves in the same position as Lauri Love or Gary McKinnon.

LONDON (Reuters) - An autistic British man accused of hacking into U.S. government agencies won his appeal against extradition to the United States on ... The forum bar was introduced in 2013 after the extradition to the United States of Scottish hacker Gary McKinnon was blocked by Theresa May, in her ...

The forum bar was a change in British law passed after the Gary McKinnon case, a very similar set of circumstances in which American prosecutors tried to extradite an accused British hacker who also suffered from mental health difficulties. In McKinnon's case, then-Home-Secretary Theresa May eventually ...

Many of those hackers did not suffer from the conditions that Mr Love is afflicted with, according to the letter, and yet they were handled by the UK's criminal justice system. They said Mr Love would be the first alleged British computer hacker to be extradited "and denied the opportunity to face a full ...

Following the publication of an FBI report showing that Russian government-sponsored hacking groups interfered with the 2016 US presidential elections, the US appetite to make examples of foreign hackers has only intensified. Hacking, once viewed as a kind of prank carried out by wayward geeks, ...

LAS VEGAS - A computer hacker says he's seen evidence that suggests the United States military has its own secret space program, separate from NASA's space effort. Gary McKinnon, a computer whiz from the United Kingdom, says he will talk about it at a Las Vegas symposium the weekend of July ...

After reading The Hacker's Handbook, the classic 1980s how-to book for computer hackers, McKinnon decided to do a bit of sleuthing himself. Late at night in his darkened bedroom he began trying out the book's suggested techniques, and in 2000 he decided to look for UFO evidence on the U.S. ...