A Space Age hack. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

In Space Watch, NASA is reportedly investigating what may be the first crime committed in space.

The New York Times is reporting that astronaut Anne McClain access to estranged wife's bank account while onboard the International Space Station.

McClain's wife reportedly filed a complaint accusing her of identity theft.

McClain has denied the allegations on Twitter, she wrote,

there's unequivocally no truth to these claims. We've been going through a painful personal separation that's now unfortunately in the media.

Summer Warden, a former Air Force intelligence officer, was having a hard year.

The Kansas resident was in the middle of a bitter separation and litigious parenting battle with her estranged wife Anne McClain, a decorated NASA astronaut.

Their finances, like their relationship, had become fragile. Another point of contention among a long list of heated grievances.

Within their limited communication, Warden was specifically surprised when McClain seemed to know things about her spending, like the car she had recently bought.

Suspicious, Warden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her accounts.

The bank got back to her with a surprising answer. One point of access was registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and was being utilized from space.

This information literally made history, and while certainly not the beginning or end of the sensationalized version of Warden and McClain's relationship,

it was the first allegation of criminal wrongdoing outside of planet Earth. It's ugly, but maybe not quite for the reasons that you think.

Today on Ghost Town, we're talking about the first alleged space crime. Warden, June 7, 1979 in Spokane, Washington,

Anne McClain was an intelligent, athletic, and social kid who always dreamed of being an astronaut.

After attending Gonzaga University, the young rugby player went to West Point Military Academy, earning a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

In 2002, she was commissioned as an Army officer and then attended the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, where she earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering and international relations respectively.

Between school, military obligations, and construction projects in Uganda, and construction projects in Uganda, McClain rose to be one of the highest level rugby players in England, almost playing in the 2006 Women's Rugby Cup, which she couldn't participate in because she was deployed to Iraq.

There, she flew 800 hours and 216 combat missions during the 15 months deployment as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

McClain was high-achieving to say the least and already had done a lot in her young life, but her childhood dream would soon be on its way to being fulfilled, when in 2013 she began working as a test pilot for NASA.

Her first job was wearing a sensor on her forehead, collecting data on how the circadian rhythm is affected by a long space flight.

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