The Nation - News from July 4, 1988

A computer program designed to sabotage a Texas computer company destroyed information stored on personal computers at NASA and other government agencies, according to the New York Times. It was not known whether the program had been deliberately introduced at the agencies or brought in accidentally, but NASA officials have asked the FBI to enter the case, the Times reported in today’s editions. Damage to government data was limited, but over a five-month period files were destroyed, projects delayed and hundreds of hours spent tracking the electronic culprit, according to the newspaper.