http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/07/it_admin_christmas_eve_rampage/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 7th August 2009 The former IT admin for a Florida-based charity stands accused of ransacking the organization's servers and phone systems last Christmas eve, more than a year after his employment there ended. Luis Robert Altamarino, who had been given administrator access to the computer network of United Way Miami-Dade, breached the systems on December 24, according to an indictment filed in US District Court in Miami earlier this week. He had worked at the charity for five months starting in July 2007 setting up PCs and providing technical support for his fellow employees. Between December 24 and the following day, Altamarino ransacked the charity's servers, wiping out donor lists, email, and the system that managed employee Blackberry accounts, according to prosecutors. He also tampered with the analog phone system server so that voicemail was completely disabled. The rampage made it impossible for employees to check email, log in to the network, or use the phone system, the indictment says. Restoring the United Way chapter's systems to normal took "several days" and cost at least $5,000, the threshold amount typically required for prosecutors to bring charges under federal computer intrusion statutes. [...] ________________________________________________ Visit & Submit to the Defcon Memory Repository http://www.defconpics.org/Received on Mon Aug 10 2009 - 00:42:53 PDT
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