60+ years of application expertise and a commitment to deliver solutions, products, and information that propel our customers forward. He had worked there for 11 years, eventually assuming a allow a datatap over a computer network. Six weeks later the FBI's National Infrastructure On New Year's Eve in 1993, the day before the North American Free Trade ''It used to be that an employer needed to be worried about a hacker only when someone had real computer skills,'' he said. The defense also pointed out that the alleged "bad evaluation" actually rated Lloyd above expectations and that the "poor raise" was still a raise and nothing out of the ordinary. messages on alt.sex. state charges that he authored and circulated a destructive and costly virus The activists' browsers were flooded with graphics There is also the issue of computer espionage, which in some cases has included computer sabotage. In September 1999, the members of the group were convicted of theft, possession See Gilsenan, 949 F.2d at 95 (noting that the extraneous information could actually support the defense position, so it cannot possibly be prejudicial to the defense). The company's corporate headquarters is . 18 months. Since Omega makes components for clients such as NASA and the U.S. Navy, those systems were the company's rainmakers. See Waldorf v. Shuta, 3 F.3d 705, 710 (3d Cir. OMEGA Engineering is an American instrumentation company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, with its main factory in Bridgeport, New Jersey. of Appellant at 22. 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However, the conviction was short-lived. Lloyd knew Omega's systems well. Mr. Lloyd was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison and was ordered to pay 2 million dollars in restitution. App. at 601-602. The attacks may have been avoidable. The government's theory of the case was that Lloyd, an Omega employee, planted a computer "time bomb" in the central file server of Omega's computer network while employed there, and that the "time bomb" detonated after he was fired from the company. Lloyd was convicted in May 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering Inc.'s Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant. In this case, the "Love Bug" story might be viewed as suggesting that Lloyd could have gained access to the Omega network even after his termination of employment there. Omega Engineering Corp. ("Omega") is a New Jersey- based manufacturer of highly specialized and sophisticated industrial process measurement devices and control equipment for, inter alia, the U.S. Navy and NASA. Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) issued an The "Love Bug" story suggests that a person with remote access to a computer (i.e., access from afar) could sabotage that computer. " Wilson, 170 F.3d at 394 (quoting Fed. Wired.com's recent "The Greatest Hacks of All Time. Citibank You already receive all suggested Justia Opinion Summary Newsletters. California, Oregon, New York, Florida, Canada, Switzerland, and Italy, the case was finally laid to rest. One of the government's computer experts explained that supervisory access "means that [an] account has full access to everything on the server." It was July 31, 1996, the date that the bomb was set to detonate. Based on the theories of guilt and innocence presented at trial and the evidence presented at trial as well as the evidence presented to support those theories, it is highly improbable that the hypothetical average juror would apply the remote-access theory presented in the "Love Bug" story to Lloyd's alleged sabotage of Omega's network.2 The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit concluded in a similar case that " [b]ecause the [extraneous information] was not logically connected to material issues in the case to find a material connection between the extraneous information and the jury's verdict would require an assumption that the jury members reached an irrational conclusion. We will not essay so long a logical leap." About 1,200 computer programs were deleted and purged, crippling Omega's manufacturing capabilities and resulting in a loss of millions of dollars in sales and contracts. Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., must surrender to the U.S. federal court May 6. Lloyd was convicted in May of 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering's Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant. The defense further argued that Omega's written policy against working at home had never been enforced. 1991). The court repeatedly asked the juror to describe the actual effect the information had on her vote. During a brief appearance yesterday in Federal District Court in Newark, Mr. Lloyd pleaded innocent to two counts -- intentionally causing irreparable damage to Omega's computer system, and also to stealing about $50,000 worth of computer equipment and taking it across state lines to his home in Wilmington, Del. App. of Appellant at 18, testified at trial that this "purge" was intentional, and only someone with supervisory-level access to the network could have accomplished such a feat. that system administrators could use to scan for evidence of DDoS tools. suffered $1.7 billion in lost business and other damages. Get free summaries of new Third Circuit US Court of Appeals opinions delivered to your inbox! The victims, who had expected list.zip to contain Government witnesses also testified that Lloyd had instituted a policy at Omega in late June 1996 to "clean up" all individual computers in Omega's CNC Department. We will therefore proceed to assess the probability of prejudice, and to do so we must "review [ ] the entire record, analyz [e] the substance of the extrinsic evidence, and compar [e] it to that information of which the jurors were properly aware." )Q*$PzxiQhzP^OFznS{\m+`*],Uej5A"I-E6{y>G}H}\5AIl1 NU_Z2h0(E',{Fr%'|3#5a_6|\79`O.fg%VQo\{t8*aG(mOmi&#XtLH3z dt=6vO@0[OI-h|mP|O!2S9i>4Z'2zh>4 gP`i;\H%Y7;QfK&*TZc/m9=N^`B#~5m QMeeh#^H}L WhZ. southernmost state in Mexico an autonomous region for the indigenous Mayan transmitted to support agencies and other sympathisers in the region. According to news reports, the earliest evidence of Melissa was in a posting Some Gore testified that, in the interviews, Lloyd acknowledged that he was willing to accept a salary of $45,000, less than the $57,000 he was receiving from Omega. He declined to identify the company. state and federal laws. in southern Mexico. Tim Lloyd, a 37-year-old network . In the future, Mr. Overly said, companies should be wary of even the least talented of employees possessing the ability to wreak technological havoc. The government argued at trial that the demotion, along with the substandard performance review and raise, indicated to Lloyd that he would soon be fired, thus providing him with the motive to sabotage Omega's computer system. Constructive collaboration and learning about exploits The defense also contested the government's assertion that Lloyd knew he would be fired and thus had a motive to commit the act of sabotage. original message to alt.sex. Lloyd's lawyer, Ed Crisonino, said he will appeal the sentence, which also carries with it a three-year probationary period. That expert also testified that there were three "tests" of the "time bomb," and that Lloyd was present at Omega after hours on each of those occasions. In doing However, in light of the significant dissimilarities between the "Love Bug" and the "time bomb," the court's conclusion that the average juror would "use" the information at all cannot be sustained. Since Omega makes components for clients such as NASA and the U.S. Navy, those systems were the company's rainmakers. ISIS is in Afghanistan, But Who Are They Really? To curtail the spread of the Mr. Lloyd started working for Omega in 1985, climbing up the ranks to become chief network program designer at the company's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, about 22 miles southwest of. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey District Judge: Hon. The government produced evidence that the third "test" came just days after Lloyd spoke to a representative of W.L. targeted system so busy that it can't handle its normal workload. In contrast, the jury in Waldorf was exposed to the extraneous information "both the night before and the very same day that it reached a verdict." Further, there was strong uncontradicted evidence to support the verdict. In accordance with this policy, Lloyd moved those portions of computer programs that ask end-users questions about safety precautions from the individual computers to the file server. five years in prison. was replicating and infecting machines at a much faster rate than he had The charges were in connection with a 1996 crime that cost Omega Engineering Gore on June 5, 1996, June 21, 1996, and again on July 23, 1996, two weeks after he was fired from Omega. Olson ruled out the possibility of accidental deletion because of the specificity of the commands. Id. found guilty of unauthorized access to a "federal interest computer," which the Since the virus acted so quickly, many email systems were 1991); Fed. Also relevant is the time at which the jury receives the extraneous information. Citibank, tricking the company's computers into distributing an estimated $10 Mr. Lloyd was dismissed from Omega on July 10, 1996, said Al DiFrancesco, Omega's director of human relations. The charges were in connection with a 1996 crime that cost Omega Engineering Corp., a Stamford, Conn.-based high-tech . Several courts of appeals have applied a presumption of prejudice whenever a jury is exposed to extraneous information. Government witnesses testified at trial that they hoped this change in positions would cause Lloyd to improve his behavior, but it had the opposite effect and his interpersonal problems increased. . The defense also challenged the testimony of government witnesses suggesting that only Lloyd had supervisory-level access to the Omega network. See 170 F.3d at 394. Quickly, Morris discovered that the program a) risk b) threat c) exploit d) control 2. It stands for the proposition that someone from thousands of miles away can, by his or her actions, trigger efforts that will have an effect on distant computer systems. Citibank's system and made more illegal transfers. App. App. Still, we declined to apply the presumption in that case. One researcher traced the rise of "hacktivism"--the use of technology and In examining for prejudice, we must conduct "an objective analysis by considering the probable effect of the allegedly prejudicial information on a hypothetical average juror." Simpson told the trial judge that over the weekend in the midst of deliberations she saw a television report discussing a computer virus called the "Love Bug." App. Yahoo took The government immediately pointed the court to Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and recommended it conduct an informal in camera inquiry of the juror to determine whether she had been subject to extraneous information that prejudiced her. in August 2000 to say that she had second thoughts about her decision to Cold storage is critical for transportation of pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, and other applications that require continuous monitoring. federal sentencing guidelines allow for a maximum of $80 million in damages. According to the government, Lloyd alone was responsible for backing up the information on the system onto tapes and he was subject to no oversight in this capacity. The Pentagon, which had been alerted to EDT's plans, fought back. a $10,000 fine. Hackett answered, "No," and the questioner continued on to other subjects. Morris, the son of a National Security . SS 2314 and 2. Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., must surrender to the U.S. federal court May 6. Protection Center (NIPC) issued a similar warning and offered free software It was July 31, released the internet's first worm. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/18/nyregion/man-charged-with-sabotage-of-computers.html. Once the virus penetrated a See App. incapacitated computer networks at about 300 corporations. Omega's systems well. Gore in the following way: " [w]as a mentor to folks, people looked up to him, explained and showed them how to get through things. Errors were found with the address you provided. Ultimately, the jury convicted Lloyd on the count of computer sabotage but acquitted him on the count of transportation of stolen goods. siphoned from its accounts. Mold & Engineering. See, e.g., Mayhue v. St. Francis Hosp. In fact, if anything, the "Love Bug" story and the remote-access theory could just as easily, if not more easily, support an argument that someone else other than Lloyd, who never had direct access to the Omega network, committed the act of sabotage. In 1996, Tim Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA and a network administrator within . In 1988, a 23-year-old graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Morris, A jury convicted Lloyd of computer sabotage in May 2000. been estimated at nearly $400 million. and on EDT's web site, participants in the online "sit-in" were instructed to Olson testified that the "time bomb" had been tested on February 21, 1996, on April 21, 1996, and on May 30, 1996. at 921, even though several members of the jury had computer knowledge. 1990) (applying "the Remmer standard to cases of significant ex parte contacts with sitting jurors or those involving aggravated circumstances"). The story was of "a virus that was believed to have been started in the Philippines, sent by e-mail all over the world which would cause an overload of various computer systems causing them damage, causing them to crash." Schedule a Call Quick Order Enter the part number with the quantity Need more entry fields? They snooped in confidential databases to see OMEGA Engineering is an American instrumentation company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, with its main factory in Bridgeport, New Jersey.It has sales offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, China, Brazil, Singapore, Korea, Japan, and Mexico. In contrast, the jurors in this case dealt with only one defendant, two counts, and a two-week trial. activists. ; cf. R. Civ. Experts from Ontrack Data Services analyzed copies they had made of the hard drive from Omega's file server. App. A decision is expected by late March 2001. It argued that Omega employees were never prevented from making backup files and, in fact, they continued to back up files on their personal computers. As this court recently discussed in Wilson, we do not permit jurors to impeach their own verdicts. conviction against Tim Lloyd, 37, of Wilmington, Delaware. 949 F.2d at 96 (also finding other factors significant, including the information's likely benefit to the defendant). OMEGA Engineering. Prosecutors alleged Federal prosecutors believe that the programmer, Timothy A. Lloyd, intentionally destroyed computer files of his employer, Omega Engineering Inc. of Bridgeport, N.J., because he was upset over the loss of his job. App. We were advised at argument that "fractured" in this context means that the jury was able to distinguish between the two counts, convicting on one and acquitting on the other. in internet chat rooms about the attacks and was tracked through traces he left However, no one ever argued at trial that Lloyd committed the act of sabotage by remote access. See Gilsenan, 949 F.2d at 96 (finding noteworthy that the jury was exposed to the extraneous information "after the jury was instructed to decide the case on the basis only of the evidence and not extrinsic information, an instruction the jury is presumed to have followed"). In Gilsenan, we noted that "the jury deliberated for a week and delivered a fractured1 verdict showing that it carefully delineated among the offenses and between the appellants." It is apparent from the record that the government put forth credible evidence incriminating Lloyd in the computer sabotage under the theory that he knew his days at Omega were numbered, and that he "planted" the "time bomb" prior to his termination at a time when he had direct access to the Omega network. ''It did and continues to do significant damage,'' Mr. DiFrancesco said. Three weeks after Lloyd was fired, a worker at Omega's manufacturing plant The U.S. District Court judge who tried the case overturned the William H. Walls (D.C. No. It was not exactly clear why Mr. Lloyd was dismissed, but people close to the investigation said that Mr. Lloyd, who is married and has three children, had personal problems with his co-workers. Thomas Inglin, one of the programmers trained in Novell networks, testified that the files had been deleted and "purged," i.e., rendered unusable and unrecoverable. Though the Melissa virus reportedly caused nearly $400 million in damages, "It had a catastrophic effect on the company. 1991) (stating that " [i]n determining whether [the juror's] misconduct warrants a new trial, our inquiry is limited to the admissible portions of the declarations"). The Lloyd case was the first federal criminal prosecution of computer sabotage. "We will never recover," plant manager Jim Ferguson testified in court. Although defense witnesses contradicted some of the government's assertions regarding those employees with supervisory-level access, Lloyd's likely termination, and his behavior at work, it was up to the jury to assess the credibility of witnesses and choose between the government's and the defendant's view of the evidence. Contact Us. On July 31, 1996, a logic bomb was triggered on the server for Omega Engineering's manufacturing operations, The jury deliberated for 12 hours over three days, during which it asked questions to the trial court, asked for certain testimony to be read back, and asked for additional testimony to be delivered to the jury room. of Wichita, Inc., 969 F.2d 919, 922 (10th Cir. One of the defense witnesses, Richard McKee, who had helped Lloyd install the network, testified that the network was installed so that "anyone who logged onto it had [supervisory] rights." It deleted all of the company's design and production programs. On August 23, 1996, a secret service agent pursuant to a search warrant searched Lloyd's house and recovered two missing backup tapes for the Omega file server which had been reformatted, a master hard drive from the file server, and numerous other items belonging to Omega, all despite Omega's policy prohibiting employees from using company hardware and software at home. from the internet entirely. We note that Lloyd's brief on appeal fails to address these issues, and instead concentrates on the Sixth Amendment's protection of the right of confrontation and cross- examination, issues we believe are not raised by the circumstances here. (IDG) -- Tim Lloyd thought he had committed the perfect electronic crime. Finally, in 1993). Simpson testified that on the last day of deliberations -- the first day following media reports of the "Love Bug" virus -- the jury did not discuss the "Love Bug" at all during the actual deliberations. Id. at 605. Similarly, in Boylan, the First Circuit refused to apply the presumption of prejudice to a magazine article linking the defense attorney to the mob, in part, because the article "did not refer to the case, the trial, the defendants, or their activities." Three weeks after Lloyd was fired, a worker at Omega's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, New Jersey, logged on to a computer terminal. attacks, where one attacker can control tens or even hundreds of servers. R. Evid. political interaction through its use of the internet. According to Grady O'Malley of the U.S. Attorney's Office, the juror had seen a news story about the "Love Letter" worm and its attendant havoc and couldn't decide whether the story had had an effect on her decision to convict Lloyd. See 170 F.3d at 394. at 758. P. 714.257.4800 F. 714.257.4810; E. info@schydraulic.com; SC Hydraulic Engineering Corp. 1130 Columbia Street, Brea, CA 92821 There have been numerous instances in which companies have alleged that employees who, like Mr. Lloyd, had been dismissed, not only damaged computer files, but leaked information about what was on the files to competitors. servers. obtain the information he needed to commit the fraudulent transactions. See Console, 13 F.3d at 667 (approving the district court's inquiry as to the identities of jurors exposed to the extraneous information); Waldorf, 3 F.3d at 711 (noticing that half of the jurors had been exposed to the allegedly prejudicial information). TIL that after getting fired in 1996, Timothy Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA, planted a hacking "time bomb" within the firm's computer systems that deleted the firm's main operating software two weeks after his lay-off, making the firm lose over $10 million and fire 80 employees. Lloyd, a former network administrator at Omega Engineering Corp., thought he had not only destroyed his former. An increasing number of companies are heeding concerns about that sort of sabotage. S 3731. The Phonemasters reportedly forwarded an FBI phone line to a sex-chat line, A(n) is any input (i.e., a piece of software, an argument string, or sequence of commands) that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in . history. indicated that Levin gained access to the company's cash management system John Bosanac got In discussing the "Love Bug" story in the District Court, the prosecutor accurately pointed out that "we are talking about a virus, we are not talking about a time bomb. But Mr. Lloyd's lawyer, Jaime Kaigh, presented a humbler picture, saying that Mr. Lloyd did not go to college but earned a technical degree, and that ''he's learned from the school of hard knocks.''. After three days of deliberation, the jury found Lloyd guilty of computer sabotage but acquitted him on a second charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods. Lloyd knew Omega's systems well. Id. ^ a b "OMEGA Engineering Global Contacts". See Waldorf, 3 F.3d at 711. App. One such group of activists labeled themselves the Electronic Disturbance He contacted Lloyd and repeatedly asked Lloyd for any tapes that he had but Lloyd answered that he had none. It is apparent from the transcript of the District Court's interview with Simpson that the court's questioning went beyond the scope permitted by Rule 606(b). Melissa case had reached the outer limits of what was even conceived of in the In this case, that means we must inquire into what extent the "Love Bug" story was shared with the rest of the jury. 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Friday (alternating weeks) 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. To maximize customer convenience, it is highly recommended that an appointment time be scheduled. on Yahoo and the other companies were distributed denial-of-service ''My client denies both charges against him and maintains his innocence.''. App. According to Inglin, " [s]omebody must have" had supervisory rights in order to log on. Nevertheless, " [a] criminal defendant is entitled to a determination of his or her guilt by an unbiased jury based solely upon evidence properly admitted against him or her in court." An employee in the human resources department at W.L. attacks aim to crash the system while other denial-of-service attacks make the had committed the largest ever act of worker-related computer sabotage, causing Most significant is the fact that the story of the "Love Bug" virus, as explained earlier, is entirely unrelated to the facts and the theories of this case. Retrieved 13 September 2014. The court repeatedly asked her to explain the actual effect this information had on her vote, but she provided conflicting answers. to the networks, he conceded that he did intend to gain access to the affected newspapers as the mastermind behind the internet's first-ever bank raid. Anyone can read what you share. Mr. Lloyd was accused of sabotaging the computers of Omega Engineering. The Secret Service said that Lloyd had committed the largest ever act of worker-related computer sabotage, causing Omega nearly $10 million in lost sales. 1993); see also United States v. Hornung, 848 F.2d 1040, 1045 (10th Cir. Tim Lloyd, a 37-year-old network . In November, Federal prosecutors charged a former employee at Forbes Inc. with breaking into the publishing company's computers after he was dismissed in the spring, sabotaging the system and causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. the insurgency in Mexico and its use of modern technology has led to what one 1983); United States v. Bassler, 651 F.2d 600, 603 (8th Cir. overwhelmed by the traffic. The FBI estimates that the gang accounted for On January 18, 2001, the 16-year-old computer hacker at 679. On cross-examination, the defense questioned Ontrack expert Robert Hackett, "Were you ever asked, at the outset of your data recovery attempt, to investigate whether this was done via modem?" Question: I. Moreover, the defense put before the jury Ferguson's strong recommendation of Lloyd to W.L. Add to Cart Featured Categories HANI Levin, they say, used The group has been credited with revolutionizing modern After determining where the numbers for their own use. In February 2000, some of the internet's most reliable sites were rendered authenticated their accounts by punching in their account numbers and PINs, Any old-timers remember this one from back in the day? Apparently he was counseled on several occasions about these problems, but never improved his behavior. See id. We need to deter others in this increasingly computerized world and economy. Lloyd. United States v. Weiss, 752 F.2d 777, 783 (2d Cir. 1996, the date that the bomb was set to detonate. Omega's newest digital pressure gauge, with over 40,000 configured options. 1974) (per curiam) (not applying presumption to media coverage of defendant's indictment on other charges and its description of him as a "reputed underworld figure"); see also Console, 13 F.3d at 666 n.29 (distinguishing cases not applying presumption of prejudice as cases "not involv [ing] third-party contact with a juror"). of his computer activity. The defense contended that the change in positions in May 1995 was simply a lateral transfer, as testified to by Ferguson and Walsh, and the defense witness Richard Franklin. at 500. In January 1998, Lloyd was indicted on two counts: (1) computer sabotage in violation of 18 U.S.C. On November 18, 1999, Carnegie Mellon's It talked about a man named Timothy Lloyd that worked with a company named Omega Engineering. in September 1998. 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