Man arrested for allegedly shutting down employers' computers

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20030221-0515-ca-computerhacker.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 21, 2003

LOS ANGELES - A former network administrator for a pair of airport 
transportation companies was arrested for allegedly hacking into a 
computer system and eliminating the customer database, authorities 
said. 

Alan Giang Tran, 28, of Fountain Valley was arrested Thursday after a 
criminal complaint was filed in federal court against him earlier in 
the week. The complaint accuses Tran of intentionally causing damage 
to a protected computer and recklessly causing damage by intentionally 
accessing a protected computer. 

Tran was released on a $10,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned 
March 17. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in federal prison. 

Authorities said Tran wiped out critical data, including a customer 
database, the companies' Web site and other records over a two-week 
period in December and January. Passwords on the computer server were 
changed and software applications were deleted. Other employees were 
unable to use their computers, which meant that Airline Coach Service 
and Sky Limousine were unable to dispatch drivers to pick up clients, 
authorities said. The companies lost thousands of dollars in business 
because of the computer problems. 

Federal investigators searched Tran's home last week and found several 
computers, a folder marked "retaliation" and information about the 
companies' computer systems. 


 

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