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Disgruntled Engineer Sent to Prison for Hacking

Posted by Susan Hall Jun 13, 2008 11:26:21 AM

A network engineer has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for deleting patient data from the computer system of a family of 17 San Diego-based community health clinics where he formerly worked.

 

The U.S. attorney's office said it was one of the longest prison terms imposed in the United States for hacking.

 

InformationWeek reports Jon Paul Oson quit his job after a negative performance review. According to court papers, he then accessed the clinics' network, disabled the automatic backup process, and deleted data and software on the clinics' servers. The deleted data also included medical information to be submitted to a federal research program.

 

Oson was sentenced to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay $409,337.83 in restitution, reports Computerworld.

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