Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Employee Sentenced to Prison for Attempted Spear-Phishing Attack on Department of Energy Computers

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2016.  Charles Harvey Eccleston, 62, a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), was sentenced today to 18 months in prison on a federal charge stemming from an attempted e-mail “spear-phishing” attack in January 2015 that targeted dozens of DOE employee e-mail accounts.

The sentencing was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips of…