{"id":190542,"date":"2016-12-05T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190542"},"modified":"2016-12-05T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:38:38","slug":"sysadmin-sabotages-isp-gets-2-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/190542-sysadmin-sabotages-isp-gets-2-years-in-prison.html","title":{"rendered":"Sysadmin sabotages ISP, gets 2 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A system administrator for Pa Online,\u00a0Dariusz Prugar, was sentenced to two years in prison for sabotaging the ISP, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/sysadmin-gets-two-years-in-prison-for-sabotaging-isp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bleeping Computer reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Prugar was initially fired from his job in 2010 after a series of &#8220;personal issues&#8221; with his employer.<\/p>\n<p>He then used his credentials to log into the ISP&#8217;s systems to download the software he had worked on while\u00a0there. The report stated\u00a0he also used the opportunity to install backdoors.<\/p>\n<p>Prugar also wrote a script that deleted logs to try cover his tracks, which caused\u00a0Pa Online&#8217;s systems to crash.<\/p>\n<p>While trying to get its systems back up, Pa Online approached Prugar for help &#8211; not knowing he\u00a0was behind the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than being paid to\u00a0bring the network back online, Prugar demanded the rights to the software he had developed during his time at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Pa Online became suspicious, as the software Prugar wanted the rights to had started malfunctioning a week after he had left, and lodged a complaint with the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using Prugar, Pa Online got a third-party contractor to rebuild its network.<\/p>\n<p>Pa Online remained in business for another five years, before shutting down on 1 October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation, the FBI laid charges against Prugar in October 2012. He\u00a0eventually\u00a0pleaded guilty on computer hacking and wire fraud charges in March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 November, Prugar was sentenced to two years in jail and ordered to pay $26,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/189686-internet-outage-blamed-on-botched-botnet-hack-in-germany.html\">Internet outage blamed on botched botnet hack in Germany<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disgruntled sysadmin has been sentenced to two years in prison after sabotaging the ISP he worked for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":170463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,28438],"class_list":["post-190542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-internet-service-provider-isp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190550,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190542\/revisions\/190550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}