Information Security News: Hacker Sentenced To Prison For One Year

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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18100201

By Laurie Sullivan 
Feb. 23, 2004   

A former employee at computer-monitor maker ViewSonic Corp. was 
sentenced Monday to one year in prison for hacking into the company's 
computer system and wiping out critical data central to running its 
foreign operations. 

Andrew Garcia, 39, worked as a network administrator at the company's 
Walnut, Calif., office, where he maintained computer servers and had 
access to system passwords for managers. 

Garcia pleaded guilty in October to one count of "accessing a 
protected computer and recklessly causing damage" at ViewSonic, 
according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of 
California in Los Angeles. ViewSonic reported more than $1 billion in 
annual revenue in 2003. 

U.S. District Judge John F. Walter sent Garcia to prison for having 
accessed ViewSonic's computer system on April 14, 2002, approximately 
two weeks after he had been terminated, deleting critical files on a 
server he maintained while employed by the company. The loss of those 
files made the server inoperative, and ViewSonic's Taiwan office was 
unable to access important data for several days. 



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