A former analyst for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has been indicted for tampering with databases used to identify possible terrorists.

"Douglas James Duchak, 46, was indicted by a grand jury today on two counts of damaging protected computers," writes Computerworld's Robert McMillan. "According to the federal indictment, Duchak tried to compromise computers at the TSA's Colorado Springs Operations Center (CSOC) on Oct. 22, 2009, seven days after he'd being given two weeks notice that he was being dismissed."

"He was also charged with tampering with a TSA server that contained data from the U.S. Marshal's Service Warrant Information Network," McMillan writes.

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