A former Dallas hospital guard was sentenced late last week to nine years
in federal prison for breaking into hospital computers, planting malicious
software and planning a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Jesse William McGraw, 26, of Arlington, Texas, worked the night shift in
2009 at the Carrell Clinic hospital in Dallas, where he broke into more
than 14 computers, including one that controlled the hospital's heating,
ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, and a nurses' station PC
containing confidential patient information, according to a news release
from the U.S. Department of Justice.
McGraw uninstalled anti-virus programs on the computers and installed
malware that allowed unauthorized individuals to remotely access and take
control of them.
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