http://www.doj.gov/ Dept. of Justice Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section us-en 04 March 2004 00:00:00 GMT Original Govt Material info@doj.gov http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rocciPlea.htm WASHINGTON, D.C. - The leading public Internet site dedicated to online copyright piracy was seized by the Justice Department today. Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff and Paul J. McNulty, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia today announced the seizure of www.iSONEWS.com as part of a previous plea agreement entered into by a defendant convicted of violating the criminal copyright laws. David M. Rocci, 22, of Blacksburg, Va., who used the online screen name 'krazy8,' pleaded guilty on December 19, 2002, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, to ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rocciPlea.htm Feb 26, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rocciPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tranArrest.htm A man previously employed at the administrative and operations center of the Airline Coach Service and the Sky Limousine Company in Inglewood was arrested this morning on federal charges of hacking into the companies' computer system and wiping out critical data. The hack wiped out the companies' customer database and other records, and effectively shut down the companies' computer server, Internet-based credit card processing system and website. Alan Giang Tran, 28, of Fountain Valley, was arrested pursuant to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in United States District Court in Los Angeles. ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tranArrest.htm Feb 20, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tranArrest.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tollesonPlea.htm Nashville, Tennessee - February 20 , 2003 - James K. Vines, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, announced that J. Jason Tolleson, 30, of Smyrna, Tennessee, entered a plea of guilty in federal court today to charges that he conspired with others to commit mail fraud and to manufacture and sell unauthorized satellite television decryption devices, and that he structured monetary transactions to avoid currency transaction reporting requirements. Tolleson faces up to five years imprisonment on each charge, a possible fine of as much as $6.9 million, restitution of up to ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tollesonPlea.htm Feb 20, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tollesonPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mynafSent.htm SACRAMENTO - United States Attorney John K. Vincent announced today that MOHSIN MYNAF, 37, of Vacaville, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David F. Levi to 24 months in federal prison, a three year term of supervised release, a $1,600 special assessment, and also ordered to pay approximately $201,738.70 in restitution for engaging in six counts of criminal copyright infringement; six counts of trafficking in counterfeit labels; and one count of circumventing a technological measure that protects a copyright work (the 'Digital Millennium Copyright Act'). As part of his ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mynafSent.htm Feb 13, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mynafSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/amatoCharged.htm Emily M. Sweeney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a one-count information was filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, Ohio, charging Dino A. Amato, age 37, of 6820 Lafayette Road, Medina, Ohio, with knowingly violating the regulations and orders of the Administrator of NASA for the protection and security of property and equipment in the custody of NASA, and property and equipment under contract with NASA. According to Court documents, between November 5, 2001, and November 14, 2001, Dino A. Amato, while employed as a contract employee with ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/amatoCharged.htm Feb 13, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/amatoCharged.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tinneyIndict.htm A Vista, California man was indicted today by a federal grand jury with six counts of wire fraud in connection with a meticulously constructed scheme to steal nearly $600,000 of computer equipment from businesses in Wenham, Massachusetts and Santa Barbara, California. The indictment was announced today by Debra Yang, United States Attorney for the Central District of California and Ronald L. Iden, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. According to the indictment, Brian Tinney, 33, set up a fictitious corporation named Data Systems International, ostensibly located in Las ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tinneyIndict.htm Feb 13, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/tinneyIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/prapakamolIndict.htm A Thai national has been indicted in Los Angeles on federal charges of smuggling into the United States millions of dollars worth of counterfeit computer software in 2002 and 2003, United States Attorney Debra W. Yang announced today.Mongkol Prapakamol, 37, a Rowland Heights resident who is currently in custody in Vancouver, was indicted yesterday afternoon on 10 counts of trafficking in counterfeit software and one count of smuggling counterfeit software ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/prapakamolIndict.htm Feb 12, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/prapakamolIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/OPdecrypt_walterPlea.htm In an FBI undercover investigation that targeted the software writers and manufacturers behind equipment that allows the theft of satellite television signals, 17 people have been charged in Los Angeles with causing millions of dollars of losses to companies that have spent tens of millions of dollars creating some of the world's most sophisticated conditional access technology.Six of the charged defendants are accused of violating the criminal anti-decryption provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. These charges represent the first time the DMCA has been used in this district and ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/OPdecrypt_walterPlea.htm Feb 11, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/OPdecrypt_walterPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/zhuArrest.htm JAMES B. COMEY, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MIN ZHU and QIUHUI HUANG were arrested Friday and charged with selling more than $200,000 worth of fake Louis Vuitton handbags to hundreds of victims across the country through auctions on the Internet auction sites eBay and Yahoo!. Searches conducted Friday at the two Staten Island homes where ZHU and HUANG were arrested and three other locations netted over 50 handbags, dust covers, boxes, and sales documents bearing the counterfeit trademark 'Luis Vuitton,' as well as records of Internet ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/zhuArrest.htm Feb 10, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/zhuArrest.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/garciaArrest.htm A man previously employed at the Walnut office of the Viewsonic Corporation was arrested this morning on federal charges of hacking into the company's computer system and wiping out critical data, acts that shut down a computer server that was central to the company's foreign operations.Andy Garcia, 39, of Montebello, was arrested pursuant to an indictment returned January 28 by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. The indictment accuses Garcia of unauthorized access to a protected computer and of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.Viewsonic Corporation is a manufacturer of ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/garciaArrest.htm Feb 06, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/garciaArrest.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mitchellSent.htm The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Joseph Edwin Mitchell was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison for trafficking in counterfeit labels for copies of computer programs. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware following a guilty plea to 10 counts in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2318. Mr. Mitchell, 45, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 9, 2002. He was charged with 10 counts of trafficking in counterfeit labels for copies of computer ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mitchellSent.htm Feb 04, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mitchellSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/sockloskieCharged.htm Emily M. Sweeney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a one-count Information was filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, Ohio, charging Donald Sockloskie, age 51, of 6419 Button Road, Concord, Ohio 44060, with manufacturing, selling and distributing equipment used in connection with the unauthorized decryption of satellite television signals, in violation of Title 47, United States Code, Section 605(e)(4). The information charges that between on or about January 1, 1999, and on or about September 28, 1999, in the Northern District of Ohio, ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/sockloskieCharged.htm Feb 04, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/sockloskieCharged.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fitzgeraldPlea.htm Paul J. McNulty, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, announced that William Fitzgerald, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, pled guilty today in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, to one count of criminal copyright infringement for distributing pirated software over the Internet. Fitzgerald, who will be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee on April 25, 2003 at 9 a.m., could receive a maximum sentence of three years in federal prison and a ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fitzgeraldPlea.htm Feb 03, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fitzgeraldPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fergusonConvict.htm United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, January 23, 2003, that after deliberating 2 hours, a jury of five men and seven women found Brian T. Ferguson guilty of three counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer. Ferguson, age 43, of 414 Dewalt Drive was tried before Chief United States District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to Assistant United States Attorney Paul E. Hull, who prosecuted the case, the evidence presented at trial established that Ferguson broke into the America Online account of Common Pleas Court Judge Kim D. Eaton ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fergusonConvict.htm Jan 23, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fergusonConvict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/serebryanyIndict.htm In the first federal criminal case in Los Angeles involving the theft of trade secrets, a Los Angeles man was indicted today on three felony counts for allegedly stealing sensitive information belonging to satellite entertainment provider DirecTV. The indictment, which was returned this afternoon by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, charges that Igor Serebryany, a 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago, stole trade secrets pertaining to DirecTV's latest and most sophisticated conditional access card, the 'Period 4' access card. The trade secrets were stolen from the law offices ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/serebryanyIndict.htm Jan 16, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/serebryanyIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/farmerPlea.htm COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney J. STROM THURMOND, JR., stated today that, WILLIAM HASKELL FARMER, age 49, of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, entered a conditional plea of guilty today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, to trafficking in clothing with counterfeit Nike and Tommy Hilfiger trademarks and two counts of money laundering conspiracy, violations of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2320 and 1956(h). The plea came on the fourth day of a jury trial, and after United States District Judge Cameron M. Currie of Columbia ruled that Farmer could not argue ... ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/farmerPlea.htm Jan 16, 2003 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/farmerPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/jiangIndict.htm JAMES B. COMEY, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JUJU JIANG, 24, of Flushing, Queens, New York, was arrested on charges of computer fraud for attempting to gain access to the accounts of numerous subscribers of GoToMyPC.com, a computer services company that provides subscribers with remote computer access, and successfully taking control of one of those accounts. According to the one-count Complaint filed today, JIANG, operating from his home i ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/jiangIndict.htm Dec 20, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/jiangIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gerhardtIndict.htm Todd P. Graves, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a St. Joseph man has been indicted for unauthorized computer intrusion. Graves noted that this is the first case of computer hacking ever prosecuted in the Western District of Missouri, which recently launched a new Cyber Crimes and Child Exploitation Unit. Richard W. Gerhardt, 43, of St. Joseph, Mo., was charged in an indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury on December 19, 2002. T ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gerhardtIndict.htm Dec 20, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gerhardtIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/suplitaPlea.htm Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, announced the guilty plea today of Stephen Suplita III, charged with hacking into the computer system of Fallbrook, California based Enjoya.com and causing damage in excess of $10,000. The Defendant appeared today in the courtroom of United States District Court Judge Jeffrey T. Miller and admitted his actions which began in August 2000, and continued through October, 2000. The Defendant, then a resident of Manchester, ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/suplitaPlea.htm Dec 17, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/suplitaPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict.htm Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced that Gary McKinnon, of London, England, was indicted in Alexandria today by a federal grand jury on seven counts of computer fraud and related activity. McKinnon faces on each count a maximum sentence of 10 years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. The United States intends to formally request that the United Kingdom extradite McKinnon. According to the indictment, between March of 2001 and March of 2002, ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict.htm Nov 15, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict2.htm An indictment was unsealed today against an unemployed United Kingdom computer system administrator, who allegedly broke into the computer network at the Earle Naval Weapons Station, stealing computer passwords, and shutting down the network in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. A second Indictment, also charging Gary McKinnon, 36, of the Hornsey section of London, was returned today in the Eastern District of Virginia i ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict2.htm Nov 12, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict2.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gorshkovSent.htm John McKay, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, and Charles E. Mandigo, Special Agent in Charge, Seattle Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that Chief United States District Judge John C. Coughenour has sentenced VASILIY GORSHKOV, age 27, of Chelyabinsk, Russia, to serve 36 months in prison for his convictions at trial last year on 20 counts of conspiracy, various computer crimes, and fraud committed against Speakeasy Network of Seattle, Washing ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gorshkovSent.htm Oct 04, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gorshkovSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/doppsPlea.htm A San Dimas man pleaded guilty this afternoon to illegally accessing the computer system of his former employer and reading the e-mail messages of company executives for the purpose of gaining a commercial advantage at his new job at a competitor. Richard Glenn Dopps, 35, pleaded guilty to one felony count of obtaining information from a protected computer. Until February 2001, Dopps was employed by The Bergman Companies (TBC), a contracting firm based in Chino. After leaving TBC to go wor ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/doppsPlea.htm Sep 09, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/doppsPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cazenaveIndict.htm Two former employees of the Santa Monica office of an international software development company were indicted today on federal charges of conspiring to enter the company's computer systems and unlawfully delete a $2.6 million software package that was being developed for a foreign client. Glenn Cazenave, 44, of Encino, and Amaya Marinella, 31, of Van Nuys, were named today in separate indictments that accuse both defendants of one count of conspiracy and one count of hacking into a computer s ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cazenaveIndict.htm Aug 02, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cazenaveIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mcdanelConvict.htm Concluding a two-week trial, a federal judge in Los Angeles today convicted a former Southern California man of maliciously bombarding the computer system of an El Segundo computer messaging company with thousands of email messages. Bret McDanel, who used the moniker 'Secret Squirrel,' is a 29-year-old resident of Fiddletown, California, was found guilty of maliciously sending thousands of email messages to a computer server operated by Tornado Development, Inc. in September 2000. By finding M ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mcdanelConvict.htm Jun 25, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mcdanelConvict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/bloombergIndict.htm JAMES B. COMEY, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and KEVIN P. DONOVAN, the Assistant Director In Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, announced that OLEG ZEZOV, a/k/a 'Oleg Zezev,' a/k/a 'Oleg Dzezev,' a/k/a 'Alex,' and IGOR YARIMAKA, Kazakhstan citizens, have been extradited by England to the United States on charges of breaking into Bloomberg L.P.'s ('Bloomberg') computer system in Manhattan in an attempt to extort money from Bloomberg. ZEZOV and ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/bloombergIndict.htm Mat 21, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/bloombergIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/konopkaIndict.htm United States Attorney Steven M. Biskupic announced today that a federal grand jury had returned a 13-count indictment charging Joseph D. Konopka, d.o.b. 6/24/76, of Green Bay, Wisconsin with 9 different violations of federal law relating to conspiracy, the destruction of energy facilities, the destruction of telecommunication facilities, the disabling of air navigation facilities, the arson of buildings, trafficking in counterfeit goods, intercepting electronic communications and causing damage ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/konopkaIndict.htm Mat 07, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/konopkaIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/melissaSent.htm The New Jersey man accused of unleashing the 'Melissa' computer virus in 1999, causing millions of dollars in damage and infecting untold numbers of computers and computer networks, was sentenced today to 20 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie and state Attorney General David Samson announced. David L. Smith, 34, of Aberdeen Township in Monmouth County, was ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completion of his prison sentence and was fined $5,0 ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/melissaSent.htm Mat 01, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/melissaSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/eitelbergArrest.htm JAMES B. COMEY, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD EITELBERG was arrested and charged yesterday in Manhattan federal court with the unauthorized intrusion of the computer network of his former employer, MP Limited LLC ('MP'), an apparel manufacturer and designer based in Manhattan. According to the Complaint, EITELBERG was hired as the controller at MP on September 1, 2001. In connection with his work at MP, EITELBERG was given the password ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/eitelbergArrest.htm Apr 26, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/eitelbergArrest.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/sanduskyPlea.htm Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, announced that on April 17, 2002, Christopher Scott Sandusky pleaded guilty in the United States District Court in Las Vegas to three-counts of Unauthorized Access to a Protected Computer in violation of 18 U.S.C. S 1030(a)(5)(A). Sandusky was indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas in May 2001. Sandusky, 35, was born in South Carolina, but presently resides in Cedar Park, Texas. According to the Plea Memorandum, Sandus ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/sanduskyPlea.htm Apr 17, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/sanduskyPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/leungSent.htm JAMES B. COMEY, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WASHINGTON LEUNG, a former employee in the Human Resources department at Marsh Inc., an insurance company located in Manhattan, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 18 months in prison by United States District Judge RICHARD CONWAY CASEY for illegally accessing and deleting hundreds of computer records at Marsh. Judge CASEY said he enhanced LEUNG's sentence based on his abuse of the tr ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/leungSent.htm Mar 27, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/leungSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rayburnIndict.htm Emily M. Sweeney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced the unsealing of a ten count indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 26, 2002, charging Jimmie Earl Rayburn, age 44, of 6103 Brownfield Drive, Parma, Ohio, with one count of knowingly transmitting a communication threatening to cause damage to a protected computer system with the intent to extort money or other things of value, in violation of Title 18, United Sta ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rayburnIndict.htm Mar 26, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rayburnIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/lloydSent.htm A former computer network administrator was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for unleashing a $10 million 'time bomb' that deleted all the production programs of a New Jersey-based high-tech measurement and control instruments manufacturer, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls ordered Timothy Allen Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., to surrender on May 1 and begin serving his sentence. Lloyd was the former chief computer network program d ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/lloydSent.htm Feb 26, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/lloydSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/williams_turnerSent.htm Emily M. Sweeney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that on February 13, 2002, Patrice Williams, age 26, of 12700 Shaker Blvd., Apt. 714, Cleveland, Ohio 44120, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr., to 12 months and 1 day in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons in connection with Williams' recent computer fraud conviction in U.S. District Court. Co-defendant, Makeebrah Turner, age 32, of 3537 East 147th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, was se ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/williams_turnerSent.htm Feb 19, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/williams_turnerSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/loganPlea.htm The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Michael Logan pled guilty today in San Francisco to a charge of unauthorized access into a protected computer causing damage in violation of Title 18, United States Codes, Section 1030(a)(5)(C). Mr. Logan, 34, of San Francisco, was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 25, 2001. He was charged in a three-count indictment with unauthorized access into a computer recklessly causing damage, unautho ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/loganPlea.htm Jan 18, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/loganPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/suplitaIndict.htm United States Attorney Patrick K. O'Toole announced today that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents arrested Stephen L. Suplita, III, in Connecticut for crimes committed in Fallbrook, California. On December 14, 2001, a federal grand jury, sitting in San Diego, returned an indictment charging Mr. Suplita with committing computer crimes. The indictment alleges that Mr. Suplita used his computer to gain unauthorized access to Enjoya.com Incorporated's computer system. The indictment furthe ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/suplitaIndict.htm Dec 18, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/suplitaIndict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/MamichPlea.htm United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., announced today that United States District Court Judge Richard Roberts accepted the guilty plea of Nicholas Mamich, 44, of Bowdoinham, Maine, to one felony count of Fraud in Connection with Computers, in violation of United States Code, Title 18, Section 1030(a)(2)(B). Assistant U.S. Attorney Miriam Smolen informed the Court that this charge arose from Nicholas Mamich's conduct in hacking numerous times into the comput ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/MamichPlea.htm Dec 18, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/MamichPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/LukawinskySent.htm United States Attorney John A. Danaher III announced that MARKUS P. LUKAWINSKY, age 32, of 54970 Avenida Madero, La Quinta, California, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Bridgeport, Connecticut by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall. LUKAWINSKY received a sentence of twelve months plus one day in prison, to be followed by three years' supervised release. In addition, LUKAWINSKY was required to pay restitution in the amount of $198,458.31 to the Greenwich consulting firm of Mars ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/LukawinskySent.htm Dec 14, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/LukawinskySent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/schellersent.htm As part of a continuing series of identity theft and bank fraud prosecutions, United States Attorney John K. Vincent announced that SUZANNE MARIE SCHELLER, 21, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. in Sacramento to a term of thirty-six months probation, in connection with obtaining confidential customer account information and providing it to another individual outside the financial institution. In a series of cases, investigators have learned th ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/schellersent.htm Nov 30, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/schellersent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/brownSent.htm Emily M. Sweeney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that on Monday, November 26, 2001, Melissa S. Brown, age 30, of 115 Tilden Avenue, Chardon, Ohio, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dan A. Polster in U.S. District Court in Akron, Ohio, in connection with her recent computer crime conviction. Brown was sentenced to three years probation, with a special condition that the first 7 months of her probation be served in home confinement with electronic moni ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/brownSent.htm Nov 26, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/brownSent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/PatriotAct.htm Previous law: Under previous law, investigators could not obtain a wiretap order to intercept wire communications (those involving the human voice) for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. S 1030). For example, in several investigations, hackers have stolen teleconferencing services from a telephone company and used this mode of communication to plan and execute hacking attacks. Amendment: Section 202 amends 18 U.S.C. S 2516(1) - the subsection that lists those crimes for ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/PatriotAct.htm Oct 26, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/PatriotAct.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/khanindict.htm Greenbelt, MD - United States Attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio and the Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced that a federal grand jury in Greenbelt has returned a four-count indictment charging offenses relating to the November 2000 attack on the computers of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel public affairs group with offices in Washington, D.C. The indictment charged Misbah Khan of Karachi, Pakistan with hacking into AIPAC's computer server in Silver Spring, Mar ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/khanindict.htm Oct 22, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/khanindict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gorshkovconvict.htm Francis J. Diskin, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, and Charles E. Mandigo, Special Agent in Charge, Seattle Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that a jury returned guilty verdicts yesterday against VASILIY GORSHKOV, age 26, of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on 20 counts of conspiracy, various computer crimes, and fraud committed against Speakeasy Network of Seattle, Washington; Nara Bank of Los Angeles, California; Central National Bank of Waco, Texas; and ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gorshkovconvict.htm Oct 10, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/gorshkovconvict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/turnerPlea.htm Emily M. Sweeney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that on October 9, 2001, Makeebrah A. Turner, age 32, of 3537 East 147th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, entered a guilty plea to Count 1 of an indictment charging her with computer fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1030(a)(4), for knowingly exceeding her authorization on the computer systems of her employer, Chase Financial Corporation, in furtherance of a scheme to defraud Chase Fina ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/turnerPlea.htm Oct 09, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/turnerPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/WestPlea.htm Brian West an ISP employee who alerted newspaper website owners of a security flaw in their system has pled guilty to Federal computer intrustion charges. Mr. West's plea acknowledges extensive activity on the competitor managed system contradicting his previous public statements as to the nature and scope of the intrusion ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/WestPlea.htm Sep 24, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/WestPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/brownPlea.htm Emily M. Sweeney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced that on Friday, September 14, 2001, Melissa S. Brown, age 30, of 115 Tilden Avenue, Chardon, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Akron, Ohio, to a one count indictment charging her with computer fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1030(a)(5)(A). On July 6, 2001, a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, returned a one count indictment charging Brown, with computer fraud in violatio ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/brownPlea.htm Sep 14, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/brownPlea.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/pierre-louis_Convict.htm Guy A. Lewis, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced today that a jury sitting in the Southern District of Florida in Miami found Herbert Pierre-Louis guilty of two counts of knowingly sending a computer virus to cause damage to computers used in interstate commerce. Sentencing is scheduled for Tuesday, November 20, 2001, at 4:30 p.m. before United States District Judge Alan S. Gold. Pierre-Louis faces a maximum sentence of three and a half years in federal prison ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/pierre-louis_Convict.htm Sep 06, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/pierre-louis_Convict.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/torricellisent.htm MARY JO WHITE, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RAYMOND TORRICELLI, a/k/a 'rolex,' the head of a hacker group known as '#conflict,' was sentenced today to four months in prison and four months of home confinement for, among other things, breaking into two computers owned and maintained by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ('JPL'), located in Pasadena, California, and using one of those computers to ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/torricellisent.htm Sep 05, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/torricellisent.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/html/2001_08_28_skyarov.html The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Elcom Ltd. (also known as Elcomsoft Co. Ltd.) and Dmitry Sklyarov, 27, both of Moscow, Russia, were indicted today by a federal grand jury in San Jose, California on five counts of copyright violations ... http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/html/2001_08_28_skyarov.html Aug 28, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/html/2001_08_28_skyarov.html http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/Sklyarov.htm The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Dmitry Sklyarov, of Moscow, Russia, made an initial appearance yesterday in Las Vegas, Nevada, on a complaint from the Northern District of California charging a single count of trafficking in a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures in violation of Title 17, United States Code, Section 1201(b)(1)(A).   This is one of the first prosecutions in the United States under this statute, the ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/Sklyarov.htm Jul 19, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/Sklyarov.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ivanovIndict2.htm SANTA ANA, Calif. A federal grand jury today indicted a Russian computer hacker on a host of federal charges for allegedly breaking into computer systems, stealing credit card information and attempting to extort payments from the victim companies for 'computer security services.' Alexey V. Ivanov, of Chelyabinsk, Russia, was named in an indictment that charges him with eight counts of wire fraud, two counts of extortion, four counts of unauthorized computer intrusions and one count of possessin ... http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ivanovIndict2.htm Jun 20, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ivanovIndict2.htm