A man who hacked a prison system to hasten his friend's release goes to prison

Mr. Conrads Woits who lives in the state of Michigan in the United States hacked a prison computer system to release a friend early and succeeded in tampering with the prison record. However, since prison first noticed the tampering of data, friends' release was not realized, Mr. Woits was to be sentenced to imprisonment for seven years and three months imprisonment. GIZMODE of overseas media has released the detailed circumstances of this incident.

Man Gets Jail Time for Trying to Hack a Prison and Release His Friend
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In MichiganYpsilantiMr. Woits, who lives in Washton tonewy county, came up with the idea of ​​hacking the prison system and tampering with the prison record in order to release friends in prison at an early time in the prison in Washtonone County.

First, Mr. Woits who thought to obtain account information of a prison employee plans to use a fake site that closely resembles the actual site. Mr. Wooth published a fake site very similar to the real Washtonone County website "ewashtenaw.org" in the domain of "ewashtenavv.org" and sent an e-mail to a prison employee to induce a fake site .

However, a prison employee who saw the e-mail confirms the e-mail, but no one accesses the fake site, and Woits's plan fails. So, Mr. Woys changed his plan and decided to contact directly with a prison employee.


Mr. Woit says IT staff of Washtonne County and instructs prison employees by telephone to apply the update of software "X. Jail" to manage prison records. At that time, Mr. Woot said he was planning to instruct to instruct verbally to input the URL for installing malware that acquires information from the PC in the course of teaching procedures.

Communication with employees seems to have never progressed as planned, but succeeded in having employees install malware on several occasions. Finally, we were able to obtain user names, passwords, e-mail addresses etc. of more than 1,600 government officials using the computer on which malware was installed.


Mr. Woits then accesses the prison record and successfully tamper with data to speed up the release of friends. However, it seems that prison employees seemed to have copied the prison history indicated by the system at hand, and the data was falsified by manual check. Mr. Woits who did a hacking act will be arrested.

As a result of the trial, Mr. Woits was sentenced to seven years and three months imprisonment with a fine of 235,488 dollars (about 25.8 million yen) required for the investigation by the prison after the incident was discovered. In addition, the prosecutor who took charge of this case admitted that "Mr. Woits has talent", "Mr. Woits can get a job that leads to social contribution by making good use of his skills if released. Let's say "Shou."