Database admin sentenced for hacking employer's network: A former senior database administrator at a
Houston electricity provider was sentenced today to a year in prison for hacking into his former employer's
computer network, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, of Houston, pleaded guilty
on Nov. 16 to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly
causing damage. … On April 30, 2008, after he was fired, Kim used his home computer to connect to Gexa
[Energy]'s computer network and to a database containing information on about 150,000 Gexa customers, the
DOJ said. Kim damaged the computer network and the database in the process, the DOJ said. [Date: 6 July
2010; Source: more..]
