Contractor Employee Charged for Damage to NASA Computer System

On February 13, 2003, Dino A. Amato of Medina, Ohio was charged in U.
S. District Court in Cleveland, Ohio with knowingly violating NASA
regulations.

Amato, a contractor employee at Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.,
allegedly violated NASA regulations by using a NASA provided computer
to download an unauthorized file from the Internet, then transmitted
the file intentionally causing degradation in the performance of the
NASA computer system.

The NASA Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigation’s
Computer Crimes Division, conducted the investigation. The prosecution
is being handled by Robert W. Kern, Assistant United States Attorney,
Northern District of Ohio.

For more information on this release, please call Joe Kroener,
Executive Officer, NASA Office of Inspector General, at (202) 358-2558.