[Unfortunate that a paper llike the Times would confusing hacking and simple sabotage by a fired sysop. Since "lost time" is part of the damages, why isn't spam illegal?]
Hacker Gets 16 Months for Crashing Firm's Computers [*] By JEAN GUCCIONE, TIMES STAFF WRITER A disgruntled former employee was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in state prison and ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution for hacking into a defense contractor's computer and crashing the system. <snip> In February 2000, a month after being fired, Oganesyan tapped into H.R. Textron's computer and caused the system to crash for a day, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Jonathan Fairtlough. Seven hundred employees at company offices in Valencia, Pacoima and Ohio were unable to use their computers, causing $211,000 in lost labor costs, Fairtlough said. http://latimes.com/editions/valley/la-000025622apr10.story?coll=la%2Deditions%2Dvalley
