A systems administrator who apparently feared imminent layoffs was arrested Tuesday in connection with installing “destructive computer code” on servers at his company, a major manager of prescription benefit plans.
FBI agents arrested Yung-Hsun “Andy” Lin, 50, at his Montville, N.J., home on Tuesday morning, one day after a grand jury returned a two-count indictment (PDF) against him.
The indictment accuses Lin of planting a “logic bomb” sometime around October 2003 that, if activated successfully, would have deleted “virtually all information” on more than 70 HP-Unix servers at Medco Health Solutions and wreaked havoc on the business and its users.
The servers contained numerous applications and databases that managed bills, rebates, new prescription call-ins from doctors, insurance coverage, and clinical assessments of patients. One database that received special attention in the indictment, known as the Drug Utilization Review, was designed to allow pharmacists to see what drugs patients were already taking so that they could determine whether taking different medicines simultaneously was safe.
“The potential damage to Medco and the patients and physicians served by the company cannot be understated,” Christopher Christie, U.S. attorney for the New Jersey district, said in a statement.
(Via) Adriana.
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