Hospital Hacker "ghostexodus", sentenced to 9 years

Contract security guard malware installed on sensitive systems of the hospital to attack the Anonymous collective piracy.
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Slideshow: 10 BreachesHack Massive security a hospital, go to jail: on Thursday, Jesse William McGraw, aged 26, of Arlington, Texas, was sentenced in Federal Court to 110 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. The judge also ordered McGraw to pay $31,881.75 in restitution to the Hospital of groups affected by its attacks.

McGraw, also known as the GhostExodus, was the self-proclaimed Tribulation Electronik army leader.

In June 2009, McGraw - then a contract of employment, security guard of the quarter of night in a hospital in Dallas - was arrested for entry of several computers, including the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system hospital, as well as computers containing confidential patient information.

In May 2010, McGraw has pleaded guilty to a charge him with two counts of transmission of malicious code. Representatives of the Federal law has said that he admitted having used the Ophcrack Windows password cracker for access systems, and then the installation of malicious code botnet, allowing access to remote systems, in preparation for the launch of denial of distributed service (DDoS) attack.

James t. Jacks, the District Attorney of District of Northern Texas to the United States, said that "McGraw admitted that he had intended to use bots and computers compromised to launch DDoS attacks on Web sites of the rival groups hacker." Interestingly, the rival of the McGraw was the collective known as anonymous, hacker most recently known for his defence of Wikileaks.

Authorities said the McGraw cancellation is that he detailed his burglaries of hospital system (which began in April 2009), and plans for its future attack, videos that he has uploaded on YouTube. In these missives, he urged other hackers to join in launching DDoS against anonymous attacks.

According to the Dallas Observer, the videos have been spotted by a student at Mississippi State University, Wesley McGrew computer, has happened "to work as research assistant to Critical Infrastructure Protection Center the University." He alerted the FBI for videos, arrested before McGraw he launched attacks DDoS using computers in the hospital.

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