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A bitter divorce battle on Earth led to claims of a crime in space

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

A complaint involving bank access from the space station is just one of a number of complex legal issues that have emerged in the age of routine space travel 	Photo: Reuters
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A complaint involving bank access from the space station is just one of a number of complex legal issues that have emerged in the age of routine space travel photo: reuters

Mike Baker | NYT
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?
 
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

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