U.S. Man Gets Record Sentence for Computer Sabotage

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The New York Times (Reuters).

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A computer systems administrator has been sentenced to 30 months in a US
prison for trying to sabotage his company's servers out of fear he was
about to lose his job, prosecutors said.

The US Attorney's Office in New Jersey said Yung-Hsun Lin received the
longest ever federal prison term for a criminal attempt to damage a
computer system.

He was also ordered to pay $US81,200 ($NZ106,000) in restitution to his
former employer, pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions.

Lin, 51, admitted he modified computer codes and added code to create a
"logic bomb" designed to wipe out servers on Medco's network in October
2003, around the time Medco was being spun off by Merck & Co, authorities
said.

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More:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-usa-crime-computers.html

- - ferg

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