Moonlight Maze

Overview
'Moonlight Maze refers to an incident in which U.S. officials accidentally discovered a pattern of probing of computer systems at The Pentagon, NASA, U.S. Department of Energy, private universities, and research labs that began in March 1998 and had been going on for nearly two years. Sources report that the invaders were systematically looking through tens of thousands of files &mdash; including maps of military installations, troop configurations and military hardware designs. The U.S. Department of Defense traced the trail back to a mainframe computer in the former Soviet Union but the sponsor of the attacks is unknown and Russia denies any involvement.