Information Security News: Fired Houston organ bank worker accused of hacking into system

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5854484.html

By CINDY GEORGE
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
June 24, 2008

The fired technology director of a Houston organ donation company has 
been accused of hacking into its computer system and deleting records.

A federal indictment alleges that over two days in November 2005, 
Danielle Duann illegally accessed and damaged LifeGift Organ Donation 
Center's database.

The agency recovers organs and tissue from the deceased for distribution 
in 109 Texas counties. Recipients live in a broad swath of the state 
including Houston, Fort Worth, Lubbock and Amarillo.

After Duann, 50, was fired as the agency's director of information 
technology, she is accused of accessing the system and issuing commands 
that wiped out organ donor information and accounting files.

"There was no interruption in clinical operations as a result of the 
deletion of files, therefore no lives of transplant candidates were in 
jeopardy," LifeGift spokeswoman Catherine Burch Graham said Tuesday 
afternoon.

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