Brent Hanson - USAEYES-FRAUD.com
2010-03-14 03:29:06 UTC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
(617) 748-3356
www.usdoj.gov/usao/ma
Contact: Christina Diiorio-Sterling
Phone: (617) 748-3356
E-Mail: ***@usdoj.gov
Former Inmate Sentenced for Hacking Prison Computer
BOSTON, MA - A former prisoner of the Plymouth County Correctional
Facility was sentenced today in federal court to 18 months of
imprisonment for intentionally damaging the prison’s computer network.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent
in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Office
and Joseph D. McDonald, Jr.,
Plymouth County Sheriff, announced today that FRANCIS G. JANOSKO, age
44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr., to 18
months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised
release and restitution to the prison. JANOSKO pled guilty to one count
of intentionally damaging a protected computer on September 15, 2009.
At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the
case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that
while JANOSKO was an inmate at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility
in 2006 and 2007, the correctional facility provided inmates a computer
for legal research with security controls to prohibit Internet access,
e-mail, or using other computers or computer programs. Despite these
restrictions, JANOSKO hacked the computer network to send e-mail; to
provide inmates access to a report that listed the names, dates of
birth, Social Security numbers, home addresses, telephone numbers and
past employment history of over 1,100 current and former Plymouth County
Correctional Facility personnel and applicants; and to access (without
success) an important prison management computer program.
During the three years of his supervised release, JANOSKO will be
prohibited from discussing any information that he learned from the
prison’s computer system or about the prison’s computer system with
anyone other than his attorney or a government representative,
from using any device connected to the Internet without approval from
the probation office, which will be limited to work or educational
purposes, and from contacting any of the people whose identity
information he uncovered.
'
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Assistance and the
Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant
U.S. Attorney Scott L. Garland of Ortiz’s Computer Crime Unit.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
(617) 748-3356
www.usdoj.gov/usao/ma
Contact: Christina Diiorio-Sterling
Phone: (617) 748-3356
E-Mail: ***@usdoj.gov
Former Inmate Sentenced for Hacking Prison Computer
BOSTON, MA - A former prisoner of the Plymouth County Correctional
Facility was sentenced today in federal court to 18 months of
imprisonment for intentionally damaging the prison’s computer network.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent
in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Office
and Joseph D. McDonald, Jr.,
Plymouth County Sheriff, announced today that FRANCIS G. JANOSKO, age
44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr., to 18
months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised
release and restitution to the prison. JANOSKO pled guilty to one count
of intentionally damaging a protected computer on September 15, 2009.
At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the
case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that
while JANOSKO was an inmate at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility
in 2006 and 2007, the correctional facility provided inmates a computer
for legal research with security controls to prohibit Internet access,
e-mail, or using other computers or computer programs. Despite these
restrictions, JANOSKO hacked the computer network to send e-mail; to
provide inmates access to a report that listed the names, dates of
birth, Social Security numbers, home addresses, telephone numbers and
past employment history of over 1,100 current and former Plymouth County
Correctional Facility personnel and applicants; and to access (without
success) an important prison management computer program.
During the three years of his supervised release, JANOSKO will be
prohibited from discussing any information that he learned from the
prison’s computer system or about the prison’s computer system with
anyone other than his attorney or a government representative,
from using any device connected to the Internet without approval from
the probation office, which will be limited to work or educational
purposes, and from contacting any of the people whose identity
information he uncovered.
'
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Assistance and the
Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant
U.S. Attorney Scott L. Garland of Ortiz’s Computer Crime Unit.