A Miami man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to computer fraud.
Lesmany Nunez, 30, was also ordered, on his release from prison, to serve three years of supervised release, with a special condition that he perform 100 hours of community service by lecturing young people on the implications of hacking into other people’s computers and networks. Nunez was also ordered to pay $31,560 in restitution.
According to the pleadings and in-court statements, Nunez was a former computer support technician at Quantum Technology Partners (QTP), located in Miami-Dade County. QTP provides data storage, email communication and scheduling for their client companies.
Late one Friday night, Nunez remotely accessed QTP’s network without authorization, using an administrator account and password. After changing the passwords of all of the IT system administrators, Nunez shut down almost all of their servers. Nunez also deleted files which would have made the re-installation of data from backup tapes easier and less time consuming. In so doing, QTP and their clients could not perform their normal business functions for a number of days.
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Source: northcountrygazette.com
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