2.5 Years in Jail for Planting 'Logic Bomb'

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?

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Re:Going Sysadmin

[isa-kuruption]

Yes, but in this case, we are talking about dead people.

The result of the bomb on the server infrastructure would have caused patients to not have their life-saving prescriptions delivered thus putting their health at risk. So, if it had gone off, it is possible there could have been deaths due to his actions.

Re:seems fair, but...

[MMC Monster]

IANAAIAAC (I am not an anesthesiologist, I am a cardiologist), and I agree.

There are things that you really need a great deal of training to understand, that expert witnesses cannot really stress to a jury. When I get sued for malpractice, I would much rather have a jury of my peers and a physician-judge than 12 guys that were picked up off the street, with jury selection involving a prosecuting attorney that wants to get all the educated individuals eliminated from the jury pool.