NORTH CAROLINA
An information technology manager admitted sending malicious computer code to former company’s servers in North Carolina, officials said.
Nikhil Nilesh Shah, 33, of Union, New Jersey, plead guilty in federal court in North Carolina to one felony count of causing the transmission of computer code and, as a result, damaging computers and causing loss of at least $5,000 in value.
Shah is scheduled to be sentenced in Dec. 8.
According to the indictment, from 2007 to March 2012, these are the facts:
Shah was an information technology manager at Smart Online Inc., a company located in Durham, North Carolina, that developed platforms for the creation of mobile applications.
Shah subsequently left Smart Online to work for another technology company.
According to facts presented to the court in connection with his plea agreement, on June 28, 2012, Shah sent malicious computer code to Smart Online’s computer servers in Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina, causing at least $5,000 in damage and deleting much of Smart Online’s intellectual property.