Hacker gets Prison Time for Attacking Collection Agency

A disgruntled Silicon-Valley-based debt collection employee decided that a computer virus, rather than helping himself to a bagful of office supplies, was the more appropriate bird to fly after he quit his job.



William Shea was sentenced Thursday for placing a so-called “time bomb” on his employer’s computer. He?ll spend a year in prison and six months on house arrest for his geeky shenanigans.

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