Former Energy Dept. employee pleads guilty in nuclear secrets sting case
A former Energy Department employee accused of attempting to infiltrate the agency’s computer system to steal nuclear secrets and sell them to a foreign government pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge of attempting to damage protected government computers in an email “spear-phishing attack.”
Charles Harvey Eccleston, a former employee at the department and at the independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was arrested March 27 by Philippine authorities after an undercover FBI sting operation.
