ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WRIC) — Two Alexandria brothers are accused of conspiring to destroy nearly 100 federal databases, among other serious crimes.
On Wednesday, Dec. 3, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that 34-year-old brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both of Alexandria, were charged on Nov. 13 in connection with a conspiracy to delete databases used to store U.S. government information.
These alleged crimes occurred after the Akhters lost their jobs as federal contractors. The brothers are accused of plotting to harm the company they worked for, as well as federal customers, in retaliation “by accessing computers without authorization, issuing commands to prevent others from modifying the databases before deletion, deleting databases, stealing information and destroying evidence of their unlawful activities,” the DOJ said…