Laptops carried to the International Space Station in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG that steals passwords and sends them to a remote server, reports BBC News.
NASA called the virus merely a "nuisance" on non-critical laptops used for things like e-mail and nutritional experiments, reports Wired. It said this wasn't the first time computer viruses have been found there, but the space agency is trying to track how it got there and how to prevent viruses in the future.
The BBC says the agency suspects an astronaut might have introduced the virus from a flash or USB drive.
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