Well, that hacker volition directly last joining his inmate behind bars.
Konrads Voits of Ypsilanti, Michigan, has been sentenced to vii years together with 3 months inward prison theater for attempting to hack the Washtenaw County Jail reckoner organization together with modifying prison theater records to instruct his friend released early.
Besides spending 87 months inward prison, Voits has likewise been ordered to pay $235,488 inward fine to Washtenaw County for the toll accrued inward investigating together with cleaning upwardly the infiltration that resulted inward the compromise of personal information of to a greater extent than or less 1,600 employees, the United States Justice Department announced final week.
Between Jan 24th, 2017 together with March 10th, 2017, Voits successfully tricked information technology staff at Washtenaw County Jail into visiting a phony website at "ewashtenavv.org," which mimics the official URL, "ewashtenaw.org."
The malicious website together with thus installed malware on the information technology staff reckoner that eventually gave Voits consummate command over the Jail's network, allowing him to bag search warrant affidavits together with personal details of over 1,600 employees, including names, e-mail addresses, together with passwords.
Besides this, Voits likewise accessed the Washtenaw County Jail records together with altered the electronic records of at to the lowest degree i inmate for early on release.
However, things did non operate every bit Voits wanted them to.
An information technology employee cross-checked the loose appointment of the inmate with hand-kept records together with detected changes inward the records. He alerted the FBI, who arrested Voits a calendar month later.
"Thanks to the quick reply of the information technology employees at Washtenaw County, together with to the careful review of records past times employees at the Washtenaw County Jail, nobody was released early," the DoJ said final week.
"Washtenaw County spent thousands of dollars together with numerous extra operate hours responding to together with investigating the breach, resulting inward a loss of at to the lowest degree $235,488."The 27-year-old Michigan homo pleaded guilty to i federal accuse of damaging a protected reckoner inward Dec final twelvemonth together with has directly been jailed for vii years together with 3 months behind bars, amongst upwardly to 3 years of supervised release.
Voits has likewise agreed to give upwardly his holding he used during the attack, including his laptop, 4 mobile phones (using which he called prison theater staff), $385.49 worth of Bitcoin, together with i "Green Integrated Circuit Component, Serial No. Y21A2123."
