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In 29th October 2010, Assistant Attorney General Lanny announced "Albert-El pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer belonging to Transmarx LLC without authorization.
According to the information available Albert-El got fire by Trnsmarx when he was information technology assistance. During his employment he had access to administrative-level information and also computer network, which contain the company website hosted on a computer network in Suwanee.
He accepted that on 25 July, 2008 used a personal computer an administrator account and password in order to access the computer hosting the Transmarx website. After he got access, he started the transmission of a series of commands that intentionally made damages, without authorization to the computer by deleting around 1000 files. Furthermore, he admitted he made the dames because he was angry about got the sack. Albert action caused around $6000 losses to Transmarx.1
My comment
when you read this post the very first thing you would realize is that who and for what purposes the person commit a cyber-crime. there are many different people for different purpose commie a cyber-crime. include: student ,member of organized crime syndicates, terrorist and what apply to this case disenchanted and mad employee and they do commit a crime many different purposes, include: for the purpose of a gain, pleasures or retaliation which for this case the latter one can be applied.
there are two elements that they need to be consider for any case of crime .
1. Intention
2. Knowledge
for this case ,it is obvious that the intention act is to cause damages and loss to the company that he used to work for and also the guy had enough knowledge of computer technology for doing illegal activity.
1.Source:"Virginia Information Technology Director Sentenced to 27 Months in Prison for Hacking Former Employer’s Website." World News and Headlines at Net News Publisher. Web. 01 Nov. 2010.
Computer crime, or cybercrime, refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network, where the computers may or may not have played an instrumental part in the commission of a crime. Netcrime refers, more precisely, to criminal exploitation of the Internet. Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking, copyright infringement, child pornography, and child grooming. There are also problems of privacy when confidential information is lost or intercepted, lawfully or otherwise.
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