NetSuite hacker thrown in the cooler for a year, fined $124,000

A hacker has been jailed for a year and fined $124,000 (£86,000) after admitting he infiltrated a protected computer system. He has also had all his computer equipment confiscated and faces a three-year probation period when he gets out. Robert Saunders, 30, repeatedly hacked into the corporate network of cloud business …

[eswan]

"possession of a firearm in interstate commerce while unlawfully using a controlled substance."

And littering?

[Robert Moore]

>"possession of a firearm in interstate commerce while unlawfully using a controlled substance."

>And littering?

No, if he had been littering at the same time he would have gotten the chair.

[Barry Rueger]

Officer Obie..

He said, "Kid, we only got one question: Have you ever been arrested?"

He stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want you to go over and sit down on that bench that says 'Group W'.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Officer Obie..

Do they still use 8x10 colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back explaining what each one was?

[Anonymous Coward]

Close...

The correct meme is "and jaywalking"

WARNING: massive time sink ahead!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking

[NoneSuch]

If he got into the system, it wasn't "protected" enough.

[Pascal]

$189,000

What kind of actual damage can he have done that would truly have cost $189k to fix?

Or does that include $180k in legal fees to track / sue him?

[Version 1.0]

Re: $189,000

> What kind of actual damage can he have done that would truly have cost $189k to fix?

Evan Goldberg had to work late one evening.

[Winkypop]

Re: $189,000

Lost sales?

Prospective customers have a dim view of security issues.

[John 104]

Re: $189,000

He is lucky he got off so lightly. Maybe 189 was the one lost customer, but word of mouth will be far more damaging in the long term I would suspect...

[L05ER]

Re: $189,000

assuming these are actual costs, i'd say it's fair given the shared blame nature of most "hacks".

any bad press generated by a company's failure is deserved. he pays for the damage, they pay for the failure.