Computer Science Graduate Student Sentenced - Computer Forensics E Discovery

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"Defaced Web Pages and Installed 'Sniffer' Programs to Steal Passwords

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that [someone from] Santa Monica, California was sentenced today in federal court in San Jose. United States District Court Judge James Ware sentenced [him] to 8 months in prison and 8 months of electronic monitoring and home confinement, for gaining unauthorized access into and damaging computer systems of several high-technology companies, including eBay in San Jose and Qualcomm in San Diego, as a graduate student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin in 1999. "