Richard O’Dwyer, a 23-year old computer science student at Sheffield Hallam University is being extradited to the U.S. and faces up to 10 years in a U.S. prison for his alleged crimes.

The British High Court has heard that a computer hacker who targeted NASA should be tried in the UK and not the US because his mental state is so fragile.

British computer hacker Gary McKinnon’s request against extradition to the US has been refused after British prosecutors failed to bring charges against him on Thursday.

A man accused of hacking into secret U.S. military computers lost his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against extradition.

By eamonn holmes INSTEAD of threatening to lock up the self confessed "bumbling nerd" Gary McKinnon for 60 years for hacking into military computers, the Americans should have the wit to hire him to make their systems - and our own for that matter - absolutely secure.