Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking OneSky Jets’ Computer Systems
A Goffstown, N.H., man has pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into his former employer’s computer systems and using that information to solicit new business for a competing company, the Justice Department announced. Lawrence R. Marino, 41, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information charging him with computer intrusion. In the plea hearing, he admitted to [...]
The Australian police has arrested a 33-year-old man who is accused of hacking into nearly 100 online accounts, according to ZDNet Australia. The Australian Federal Police’s high-tech crime unit has been keeping an eye on the man since last September, when a local telecom company alerted it of suspicious activity detected within its network. The [...]
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A woman who worked as an IT technician in Floria has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for breaking into her former employer’s computers and causing damage of at least $17,000. Patricia Marie Fowler was found guilty Sept. 2, 2010, of computer intrusions causing damage of more than $5,000 to SCHC, a nonprofit federally [...]
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A 37-year-old man in Texas faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally accessing his former employer’s computer database and deleting files. Ismael Alvarez on Dec. 1 pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud. He admitted that he illegally accessed the computer system of Gray Wireline, Inc., and deleted [...]
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A former IT manager for a law firm in Tampa, Fla., has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for committing computer intrusions causing damage of at least $120,000. The court also ordered Edwin Vega, Jr. to pay restitution of $120,000 to Consuegra Law Firm. He will also be placed on supervised release for three [...]
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