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Guilty plea made in hacking

Thursday, April 18, 2002 | 10:54 a.m.

A former Henderson resident plead guilty Wednesday to hacking into the computer system at Las Vegas-based Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging and locking the company's employees out of their own system.

Christopher Scott Sandusky, 35, will be sentenced Aug. 2 and is facing up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 on each of three counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer.

Sandusky, who lives in Cedar Park, Texas, admitted in U.S. District Court that he hacked into the system on three dates in 2001, slowing the company's ability to provide magnetic resonance imaging and other services to UCLA Medical Center and other facilities.

Sandusky, who has been fired from a computer consulting company that helped set up the Steinberg system, was indicted in May 2001 after an investigation by the Nevada Cybercrime Task Force.

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