Cybercrime Conviction - Posted by Cybercrime Attorney Tampa

Defendant Found Guilty of Placing Computer Time Bomb

SAN JOSE The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that a man from San Jose, California, the former Program Manager of a Silicon Valley-based debt collection company, was convicted late yesterday afternoon by a federal jury in San Jose of intentionally causing damage to a computer, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(5)(A)(I) & 1030(a)(5)(B)(I) and 1030(c)(4)(A). The jury deliberated for approximately two hours.

According to the indictment and evidence introduced at trial, He placed malicious computer code on the network of a company in San Jose that caused the deletion and modification of financial records and disruption of the proper functioning of the computer network. More than 50,000 debtor accounts were ultimately affected by the operation of the code before it was stopped. Testimony at trial indicated that the loss to the company as a result of the defendant's time bomb exceeded $100,000, though the exact amount has not yet been determined.