The prosecution of Philip Gabriel Pettersson, charged with hacking networks at NASA and Cisco Systems, will be transferred to Swedish authorities.

"Pettersson, aka 'Stakkato,' was indicted last May and accused of hacking into Cisco and stealing source code related to the company's widely used IOS, or Internetworking Operating System," writes The Register's Dan Goodin. "He was just 16 at the time of the alleged theft. Pettersson was also accused of breaching two NASA systems, one in May 2004 at the Ames Research Center and the other the following October at the Advanced Supercomputing Division."

"Federal prosecutors in San Francisco, where the case was filed, said Monday the case was being transferred to authorities in Sweden," Goodin writes.

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