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Judge Sentences Man To One Year In Prison For Hacking Smart Water Readers - Ecks - 06-27-2017
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for hacking and disabling base stations belonging to water utility providers in five cities across the U.S. East Coast. Called TGB, these devices collect data from smart meters installed at people's homes and relay the information to the water provider's main systems, where it is logged, monitored for incidents, and processed for billing. Before he was fired by the unnamed TGB manufacturing company, Flanagan's role was to set up these devices. After he was fired, Flanagan used former root account passwords to log onto the devices and disable their ability to communicate with their respective water utility providers' upstream equipment. He wasn't that careful, as the FBI was able to trace back the attacks to his home. Apparently, the guy wasn't that silent, leaving behind a lot of clues. Flanagan's attacks resulted in water utility providers not being able to collect user equipment readings remotely. This incurred damage to the utility providers, who had to send out employees at customer premises to collect monthly readings. He was arrested in Nov 2014, and later pleaded guilty.
Read More @ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fired-employee-hacks-and-shuts-down-smart-water-readers-in-five-us-cities/
RE: Judge Sentences Man To One Year In Prison For Hacking Smart Water Readers - d0ntjump - 06-27-2017
One year isn't that bad... Clearly this was an impulsive move on his part. He left breadcrumbs leading right back to his home.
RE: Judge Sentences Man To One Year In Prison For Hacking Smart Water Readers - g4lyfe - 06-29-2017
but in terms of finding out a leak in the software 1 year is too much , they should have got good lawyer