[ISN] Hacker erased a season's worth of 'Zodiac Island'

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 01:27:59 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/sns-rt-television-us-zodiactre72u7xk-20110331,0,7230801.story

By Eriq Gardner 
Hollywood Reporter
Los Angeles Times
March 31, 2011

New York -- The producer of the syndicated children's TV series "Zodiac 
Island" claims that an entire season of the show has been wiped out 
thanks to a fired employee at its data-hosting company who hacked into 
networked computers and destroyed its work.

"Zodiac Island" has run on more than 100 U.S. TV stations around the 
country, including ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS affiliates. The show is 
produced by Hawaii-based WER1 World Network, which signed up with 
Wisconsin-based ISP and data-hosting company, CyberLynk.

According to a lawsuit that was filed last week in Hawaii District 
Court, a man named Michael Scott Jewson was terminated from CyberLynk.
>From his parents' residence, he allegedly accessed CyberLynk's data and
intentionally wiped it out. Jewson is alleged to have been charged in 
February with a federal computer crime violation and admitted his guilt 
in a plea agreement.

The data breach allegedly knocked out 6,480 WER1 electronic files, or 
300 gigabytes of data, comprising two years of work from hundreds of 
contributors globally, including animation artwork and live action video 
production.

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