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Former ViewSonic network admin faces five years inside for hack

And then there’d be a fine of $250,000.

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By Robert Lemos

Published: 7 October 2003 06:30 GMT

A former network administrator for computer monitor maker ViewSonic pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally accessing a company server and deleting critical data two weeks after the firm had fired him, the US Department of Justice has said in a statement.

Andrew Garcia, 38, admitted to a Los Angeles district court that he caused more than $53,000 in damages and clean-up costs when he had shut down a key server and prevented ViewSonic's Taiwan office from accessing the business's data, said Wesley Hsu, an assistant US attorney for the Central District of California.

While ViewSonic had locked his accounts, Garcia had used another employee's account to gain access, Hsu said. "He had, in the course of his employment, obtained other employees’ passwords," he said. Garcia's legal representative wasn't available for comment.

Garcia administered ViewSonic's network at the company's Walnut, California, main office. On 14 April, 2002, two weeks after Garcia was terminated, he logged into the system using another employee's passwords and deleted critical files, causing the server to crash, according to the Justice Department. ViewSonic's Taiwan office was unable to access the server for several days, the Justice Department said in the statement.

Garcia is scheduled to be sentenced in the case on 12 January, 2004. He faces a maximum sentence of five years and a fine of $250,000.

Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com.

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