Former ISP Administrator Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Computer Hack Conviction
A 32-year-old Syracuse, New York, man, convicted in March for computer hacking and wire fraud related to a widespread network outage in Pennsylvania six years ago, was sentenced to 24 months in prison, said DOJ in a Tuesday news release.…
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District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo in Harrisburg also ordered Dariusz Prugar to pay $26,000 in restitution. DOJ said Prugar was a network administrator for Pa Online, when the ISP was located in Enola, Pennsylvania. He was fired in June 2010, and "days later" Prugar hacked into the company's network, installing programs that resulted in files and directories being erased and crashing the network, said Justice. More than 5,000 residential and 500 business customers were without service for a week, the department said. The company rebuilt the entire network because Prugar installed several back doors to get into the system, DOJ said. In a March release, Justice said the computer fraud charge was related to Prugar's unlawful network intrusion, and the wire fraud charge was related to his attempt to cause financial loss through the use of interstate wires.