Gary McKinnon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gary McKinnon
Occupation	Programmer
Date Of Birth	Feb 10, 1966(1966-02-10)
Age	58
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Aquarius

Gary McKinnon Biography

Gary McKinnon is one of the most popular and richest Programmer who was born on February 10, 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was in 2002 accused of committing an attack that was described as the “biggest military computer hack of all time,” but McKinnon himself says his goal was to seek evidence of suppression of energy sources free of charge and an attempt to cover up UFO activity as well as other technologies that could be useful to the general public. On the 16th of October, 2012, following a number of legal instances in Britain the The Home Secretary Theresa May blocked extradition to the United States.

The month of November, 2002 was the time that McKinnon received an indictment from the federal grand jury of the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment contained seven allegations of computer-related criminality and each one included a possible ten-year jail sentence.

McKinnon remained at liberty without restriction for three years until June 2005 (until after the UK enacted the Extradition Act 2003, which implemented the 2003 extradition treaty with the United States wherein the United States did not need to provide contestable evidence), when he became subject to bail conditions including a requirement to sign in at his local police station every evening and to remain at his home address at night.

In 2006, a Freedom of Information Act request was filed with NASA for all documents pertaining to Gary McKinnon. NASA’s documents consisted of printed news articles from the Slashdot site, but no other related documents. This was consistent with NASA employees browsing internet articles about Gary McKinnon; the records of such browsing activity are in the public domain.

McKinnon was charged with hacking into the 97 United States military and NASA computers during a period of 13 months from February 2001 to March 2002 at the home of his aunt’s girlfriend in London and using the username “Solo”.

Gary McKinnon Net Worth

Gary McKinnon is one of the richest Programmer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary McKinnon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

US authorities said he had deleted important data from his operating systems. This caused the shutdown of the US Army’s Military District of Washington network of 2000 computers for 24 hours. McKinnon also published a statement on the website of the military: “Your security is crap”. Following 9/11, McKinnon was a suspect. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001 McKinnon deleted records of weapons at Earle Naval Weapons Station. Earle Naval Weapons Station, making its 300 computers unusable, and also halting supplies for munitions to United States Navy’s Atlantic Fleet. McKinnon has also been accused of copying passwords and account files to his own computer. US authorities claimed that the expense of tracking him and rectifying the damage he caused was more than $700,000.

McKinnon has stated in numerous declarations that he had illegal access to computers within the United States including those mentioned in the United States indictment. The motive that stems from a declaration that was made to his appearance at Washington Press Club on 9 May 2001, by “The Disclosure Project”, was to uncover evidence of UFOs and antigravity technology as well as the suppression of “free energy”, all of which he claims to have proven by his actions.

McKinnon was first interviewed by police on 19 March 2002. After this interview, his computer was seized by the authorities. He was interviewed again on 8 August 2002, this time by the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU).

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In August 2009, Glasgow newspaper The Herald reported that Scots entrepreneur Luke Heron would pay £100,000 towards McKinnon’s legal costs in the event he was extradited to the US.

Facts & Trivia

Gary Ranked on the list of most popular Programmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Gary McKinnon celebrates birthday on February 10 of every year.

On 23 January 2009, McKinnon won permission from the High Court to apply for a judicial review against his extradition. On 31 July 2009, the High Court announced that McKinnon had lost this appeal. McKinnon’s legal team, solicitor Karen Todner and barrister Ben Cooper, applied for a judicial review into the Home Secretary’s rejection of medical evidence, which stated that, when he could easily be tried in the UK, it was unnecessary, cruel and inhumane to inflict the further stress of removing him from his homeland, his family and his medical support network.