Nuke guy ‘ spied for China’

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has charged a former employee of the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with trying to extract sensitive information on nuclear weapons — so he could sell it to China.

According to an indictment unsealed on Friday, Charles Eccleston allegedly attempted a “spearphishing” attack in January targeting dozens of government email accounts. He believed he was unleashing a virus to collect the information.

Eccleston, who has lived in the Philippines since 2011 after being fired from the NRC, was caught after he approached the Chinese embassy about providing classified US information. PostWires