Intelligence analyst charged with hacking top secret, anti-terror program

Brian Keith Montgomery, an analyst at a Defense Department spy satellite agency, faces federal hacking charges after allegedly poking around in a top-secret system used in a classified terrorism investigation involving the FBI and the U.S. Army. According to the government, Montgomery ignored a security warning and twice logged in to a classified system used in the terrorism investigation: first on April 9, when he stayed on for two hours, and then on April 14. He'd gotten the password from another classified message to which he also had legitimate access.

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