DAYTON – Christopher Paul Murphy, 68, of Golden Valley,
Ariz., was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison
for intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization.
Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the
Southern District of Ohio, and Todd Wickerham, Special Agent in Charge, Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cincinnati Division, announced the sentence
handed down yesterday evening by U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice.
According to the statement of facts in this case, Murphy,
who pleaded guilty in November 2017, intentionally attempted to access a
protected computer system in October 2017 without authorization in an effort to
gain information for his own private commercial gain.
Murphy planned to obtain client information of customers of
National BiWeekly Mortgage Administration, Inc. (NBA) in Xenia. Murphy wanted
to use the information to solicit customers to his own similar business.
The defendant attempted to obtain the information by causing
an email containing malware to be sent to an NBA employee. He also provided a
thumb drive to an NBA employee and directed that, in the event the malware
failed, the employee should download the company’s client lists onto the thumb
drive.
U.S. Attorney Glassman commended the investigation of this
case by the FBI and Assistant United States Attorney Brent G. Tabacchi, who is
representing the United States in this case.
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