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Former Ski.com Employee Fined $13,096 for 'Drunken Hacking'

Via The Aspen Times.

Disrupting business at Aspen booking agency Ski.com will cost a former employee $13,096, a federal judge has ruled.

James M. DiBlasio, convicted of two federal felonies connected to computer tampering, also must serve six months of house arrest and three years of probation as part of a sentence handed down March 14 by Judge Lewis T. Babcock.

The former Aspen resident also was ordered to undergo alcohol abuse treatment and mental health treatment. Additionally, DiBlasio can not open up new credit accounts or incur additional credit charges, according to documents filed in the U.S. District Court of Denver.

DiBlasio, now a resident of Indiana, was a sales representative for Ski.com from September 2004 through November 2006.

In October, a federal grand jury indicted him for deleting airline reservations, altering contact information between Ski.com and the airlines with which it books reservations, and deleting electronic data that Ski.com used to review available reservations. DiBlasio also changed the profile Ski.com sent to airlines. The indictment said DiBlasio committed the crimes in January 2007, from a computer in Indiana.

The crimes were committed when DiBlasio went on a “three-day drinking binge,” according to a sentencing memorandum written by his attorney, H. Michael Steinberg of Greenwood Village, Colo.

posted by Fergie @ 3/29/2008 02:15:00 AM