It’s bad enough that military and government computer systems at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory were hacked and compromised.

But to add insult to that injury, it appears that they were all hacked by the same person: a teenager thousands of miles away, in Uppsala, Sweden.

It is believed that the teen goes by the hacker name “Stakkato”, and indeed at one of the compromised facilities a researcher got a message from the hacker, identifying themselves as “Stakkato”, and taking responsibility for all three hacks.

Now, if a teenager in Uppsala, Sweden - someone who presumably has no beef, no axe to grind, no bone to pick with the United States, and who probably by definition has no more than a high school education - can hack into computers at NASA, a naval air station, and White Sands Missile Range, for Pete’s sake, what do you think that someone who wants to really do damage to the U.S….

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