follow-up: Texas hospital hacker sentenced to nine years

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.scmagazineus.com/texas-hospital-hacker-sentenced-to-nine-years/article/198833/

Texas hospital hacker sentenced to nine years
Angela Moscaritolo
March 21, 2011

A former Dallas hospital guard was sentenced late last week to nine years 
in federal prison for breaking into hospital computers, planting malicious 
software and planning a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

Jesse William McGraw, 26, of Arlington, Texas, worked the night shift in 
2009 at the Carrell Clinic hospital in Dallas, where he broke into more 
than 14 computers, including one that controlled the hospital's heating, 
ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, and a nurses' station PC 
containing confidential patient information, according to a news release 
from the U.S. Department of Justice.

McGraw uninstalled anti-virus programs on the computers and installed 
malware that allowed unauthorized individuals to remotely access and take 
control of them.

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