Nigerian gets 18 months for cyberattack on NASA employee

**Glaswegian** · 05-02-2008, 11:49 AM

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for wooing a NASA employee so he could sneak malware onto her work computer and steal passwords, banking information and 25,000 screenshots.

Akeem Adejumo, a 22-year-old Nigerian citizen, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Lagos State High Court in Nigeria late last month. He was initially charged with four counts but pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining goods by false pretenses and forgery.

Jeff Taylor, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said Adejumo did not target the woman because she worked for the government. He tried to scam several hundred women and was successful with several. Taylor noted that this case focused on the NASA employee, but two other victims were considered part of the same scheme, so there will likely be no further prosecution.

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