2.5 Years in Jail for Planting 'Logic Bomb'

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 09, @08:56AM
from the well-that-seems-fairly-light dept.

cweditor writes "A former Medco Health systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $81,200 in restitution for planting a logic bomb on a network that held customer health care information. The code was designed to delete almost all information on about 70 company servers. This may be longest federal prison sentence for trying to damage a corporate computer system, although Yung-Hsun Lin faced a maximum of 10 years." How long before the disgruntled sysadmin replaces the disgruntled postal worker in the zeitgeist?

[+] court, security, goingpostal, goingsysadm (tagging beta)