That is
why we are spending a lot of time and effort investigating these cases.??? In response to this
and other types of computer crime, the FBI has identified investigating cybercrime as one of
its top three priorities, behind counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations.
Other prosecutions under the CFAA include a case brought against a defendant
(who pleaded guilty) for gaining unauthorized access to the computer systems of hightechnology
companies (including Qualcomm and eBay), altering and defacing web
pages, and installing ???Trojan horse??? programs that captured usernames and passwords
of authorized users (United States v. Heckenkamp); a case in which the defendant was
charged with illegally accessing a company??™s computer system to get at credit information
on approximately 60 persons (United States v. Williams); and a case (where the
defendant pleaded guilty) of cracking into the New York Times??™ computer system, after
which he accessed a database of personal information relating to more than 3,000 contributors
to the newspaper??™s Op-Ed page.
So many of these computer crimes happen today, they don??™t even make the news anymore.
The lack of attention given to these types of crimes keeps them off of the radar of
many people, including senior management of almost all corporations.
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