Extra-Terrestrial Hacking

A NASA Astronaut is accused of hacking her spouse's bank Account from space. Anne McClain, whom the space agency says is "one of NASA's top astronauts," allegedly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse, Summer Worden, while aboard the International Space Station earlier this year, according to local TV in Houston, Texas.

The two women are in the process of a divorce and battling over custody of a 6-year-old son, Worden told KPRC. She said she conceived the boy through in vitro fertilization and carried by a surrogate. Worden, who according to the New York Times is a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, said her son was a year old when she met McClain. The women got married in 2014. After about three years, they began having difficulties, Worden told reporters.

“I protect my son with everything I have. That is my No. 1 priority, but I didn't sense at that time that she was anybody that I needed to protect him against. I trusted her,” said Worden,

In 2018, McClain asked a judge to grant her shared parenting rights of the child, saying in court documents that she had been "there for his first steps and first words" and that they had “a very healthy and deep parental relationship."

McClain talked to the US NBC Today show in May 2018 about parenting as an astronaut and her upcoming trip later in the year to the International Space Station.

The court battle between the women has included an allegation that Worden assaulted McClain, an accusation that was eventually dropped. Worden says the two have never had a physical altercation.

Then, earlier this year McClain allegedly accessed Worden's bank account while the astronaut was at the space station.

Worden said her bank “did give evidence to my attorneys that she did access my bank accounts,.....I was shocked and appalled at the audacity by her to think that she could get away with that, and I was very disheartened that I couldn't keep anything private.”

Worden's attorneys wrote to the NASA Office of Inspector General in July this year about the alleged breach. An attorney representing McClain, Rusty Hardin, could not immediately be reached for comment.

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