https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html
By Mike Baker
nytimes.com
Aug. 23, 2019
Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas,
has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for
much of the past year. So she was surprised when she noticed that her
estranged spouse still seemed to know things about her spending. Had she
bought a car? How could she afford that?
Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about
the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account
using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One
was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Ms. Worden’s spouse, Anne McClain, was a decorated NASA astronaut on a
six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. She was about to
be part of NASA’s first all-female spacewalk. But the couple’s domestic
troubles on Earth, it seemed, had extended into outer space.
Ms. McClain acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from
space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the
couple’s still-intertwined finances. Ms. Worden felt differently. She
filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and her family lodged
one with NASA’s Office of Inspector General, accusing Ms. McClain of
identity theft and improper access to Ms. Worden’s private financial
records.
Investigators from the inspector general’s office have since contacted Ms.
Worden and Ms. McClain, trying to get to the bottom of what may be the
first allegation of criminal wrongdoing in space.
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