Florida private investigator charged for trying to hack charity

Likely story: A private investigator tried to justify his attempts to hack into a charity by saying he was attempting to find out if they were inadvertently funding Islamic militants.

NEW YORK: A Florida private investigator is facing criminal charges over his alleged effort to infiltrate a charity's computer network while researching whether nonprofits are financing Islamic militants, US prosecutors said. 

Timothy Sedlak, 42, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan for attempting to gain unauthorised access to a computer.