A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/02/Military-computer-contractor-convicted-on-ID-theft-charges_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/02/Military-computer-contractor-convicted-on-ID-theft-charges_1.html">exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity theft</A> after he was accused of selling names and Social Security numbers of 17,000 military employees, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Randall Craig, 41, of Houston, pleaded guilty Friday to both counts of an indictment returned in April by a grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Craig acknowledged selling information contained in a military database to a person he believed to represent a foreign government, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The person who purchased the names and Social Security numbers from Craig was an undercover FBI agent, they said.