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This could be the first crime committed in space and NASA has opened an internal investigation. Anne McClain, one of the astronauts of the US space agency is indeed accused by her former spouse of impersonation and to have consulted their joint bank account without his permission. The right now invites itself into orbit, and things could not always be so simple.
A separation that turns to the settlement of accounts, it is unfortunately commonplace. It is less so when one of the two parties is an astronaut at NASA, and is accused of having accessed personal banking data from space.
This is what happens to Anne McClain returned to Earth in June after 6 months spent in the international station. A stay in which she would have connected to the joint account she shared with his wife while the two women were then separating. This consultation would have taken place without the consent of the person remaining on Earth.
An internal investigation
But the astronaut formally refutes the accusation. American justice is not yet seized, the investigation is for the moment internal to NASA. If the facts are proven, it would be the first offense committed in space.
In this case, jurisdictional issues are simple. American astronauts have access to the Internet on American computers, located in the American part of the station. But in space everything can become much more complicated.
Unclear agreements
If a crime occurred in orbit involving for example a Russian and a Canadian in the Japanese part, agreements exist, they are not precise and it is not known which country would be in charge of the case.