The first recorded conviction of a planter of a computer virus was handed down by a Tarrant County jury on Donald Burleson, found guilty of harmful access to a computer after a virus wiped out 168,000 payroll records two days after he was fired by insurer and broker USPA & IRA Co, Fort Worth, Texas: […]
The first recorded conviction of a planter of a computer virus was handed down by a Tarrant County jury on Donald Burleson, found guilty of harmful access to a computer after a virus wiped out 168,000 payroll records two days after he was fired by insurer and broker USPA & IRA Co, Fort Worth, Texas: Burleson faces up to 10 years inside, and a $5,000 fine.
