Wired: Jail Term for Web Attack
Not a fun place
for the holidays
A Pennsylvania man received an 18-month sentence for sabotaging his former employer's ecommerce site. Kenneth Patterson, 38, posted passwords to American Eagle's internal servers on the Internet and launched a coordinated denial of service attack in an attempt to bring the servers down in the midst of last year's holiday shopping season. If he's very lucky, with good behavior, he might see Christmas 2004 from outside the jail. He will also have to pay $64,000 in restitution to American Eagle.
