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U.S. Man Gets Record Sentence for Computer Sabotage

A Reuters newswire article, via The New York Times, reports that:

A computer systems administrator has been sentenced to 30 months in a US prison for trying to sabotage his company's servers out of fear he was about to lose his job, prosecutors said.

The US Attorney's Office in New Jersey said Yung-Hsun Lin received the longest ever federal prison term for a criminal attempt to damage a computer system.

He was also ordered to pay $81,200 in restitution to his former employer, pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions.

Lin, 51, admitted he modified computer codes and added code to create a "logic bomb" designed to wipe out servers on Medco's network in October 2003, around the time Medco was being spun off by Merck & Co, authorities said.

posted by Fergie @ 1/08/2008 02:55:00 PM