Computer saboteur sentenced to federal prison
Source: Network World Fusion
A former system administrator was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in federal jail and ordered to pay over $2 million in restitution for a 1996 attack on his former employer's computer network.
Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington Del., must now surrender to the U.S. Federal Court May 6. Lloyd was convicted in May of 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering's Bridgeport, N.J., manufacturing plant. On July 31, 1996, the malicious software code destroyed the programs that ran the company's manufacturing machines, costing Omega more than $10 million in losses and $2 million in reprogramming costs, and eventually leading to 80 layoffs.
