IT admin charged in Xmas Eve rampage on charity
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The former sysadmin 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. The rogue employee 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.
Altamarino's status remains unclear. Representatives from the US Attorney's office in Miami didn't return phone calls and attempts to reach the former admin were not successful. ®
COMMENTS
Timers?
And who is to say that he *did* use any old usernames/passwords to get in at all? All he needed to do was leave a scheduled task on a server for that day to go off. If he was still employed, it would be reset to the next year, etc.
Advance Retroactive Revenge?
@did it years ago
should say I was much younger in those days - very young to be running such a large network (at that time, barely past the birth of the "www" bit of the internet)
Nah
It's definitely innocent *until* proven guilty, usually by press, speculation on CNN and hearsay. That's why they'll never create laws like you have in Britain, banning the news media from convicting the accused by press while the trial is ongoing. If that happened, the entertainment news industry that has taken the place of real news would lose at least 3/4s of it's content.
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