Former Cox Employee Sentenced to Prison for Malicious Hacking
Via The Atlanta Business Journal.
More here.
A resident of Norcross, Ga., who used to work for Cox Communications is going to jail for five months and was ordered to pay $15,470 for hacking into the company's computer system and shutting down service in three states.
U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash on Thursday sentenced William Bryant, 38, on a charge of knowingly causing the transmission of information to a computer used in interstate commerce, and, as a result, intentionally and without authorization causing damage to that computer. Bryant pleaded guilty to the charges on Sept. 26, 2007. Today he got five months in jail to be followed by five months of home confinement and two years of supervised release.
Hat-tip: FIRST.org Global Security News
posted by Fergie @ 1/11/2008 12:05:00 AM
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