Woman Pleads Guilty to Computer Crime
| U.S. Attorney’s Office May 18, 2011 |
ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Andrea M. Burch, 48, of Hornell, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan W. Feldman, to intentionally causing damage to a protected computer. This charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, a fine of $100,000 or both.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa J. Miller, who is handling the case, stated that between June and July 2007, the defendant, a former billing systems administrator for Universal Health Network, accessed her former employer’s computer system using the password of another employee. Burch was not authorized to access Universal Health Network’s computer system and, as a result of her actions, client billing data was deleted, thus harming Universal Health Network.
The plea is the culmination of an investigation on the part of special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Richard W. Kollmar.
Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 8, at 4 p.m. EST, in Rochester, N.Y., before Judge Feldman.