IT manager sentenced to prison in hacking case
An Orange, California, IT manager who earlier pled guilty to hacking into his previous employer's computer network was sentenced Monday to five months in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Tuesday. According to a plea agreement dated August 30, 2004, Mark Erfurt broke into the computer systems of Santa Clara, California's Manufacturing Electronic Sales Corp. (MESC) on January 23 and 24 of 2003. During that time, he deleted data, read e-mail, and downloaded a proprietary database from the network using the PC Anywhere remote control software, the agreement said.
Erfurt also pled guilty to obstructing justice during the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's subsequent investigation by overwriting backup tapes that contained evidence of the break-in, the agreement said.
