[ISN] Former Gucci Employee Charged in Computer Hacking Case

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 01:26:34 -0500 (CDT)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576243312850500374.html

By Chad Bray
The Wall Street Journal
April 5, 2011

NEW YORK -- A former Gucci America Inc. computer network engineer was 
charged with remotely taking over the company's computers, shutting down 
servers and deleting emails, Manhattan prosecutors said on Monday.

Sam Chihlung Yun, 34 years old, allegedly created an account in the name 
of a fictional employee and used it to access the company's network 
after he was fired in May 2010, prosecutors said. He allegedly caused 
more than $200,000 in diminished productivity, as well as remediation 
costs, prosecutors said.

"Computer hacking is not a game," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. 
Vance Jr. said. "It is a serious threat to corporate security that can 
have a devastating effect on personal privacy, jobs, and the ability of 
a business to function at all."

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