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East Bay man sentenced for altering former employer’s laptop programs after being terminated

By Miles Cooper
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January 18, 2025
East Bay man sentenced for altering former employer’s laptop programs after being terminated
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East Bay man sentenced for altering former employer’s laptop programs after being terminated

(KRON) — An East Bay man was sentenced to 18 months in federal jail for overwriting information on his former employer’s laptop programs after being knowledgeable that his employment was being terminated, the Division of Justice introduced Thursday.

Vamsikrishna Naganathanahalli, 49, of Dublin, labored as a senior Oracle Human Capital Administration (HCM) architect for MedAmerica, Inc. from October 2018 to June 2022, based on the DOJ. MedAmerica, Inc. is a part of the Emeryville-based healthcare group Vituity.

The HCM platform that Naganathanahalli labored with is used to prepare human useful resource information for Vituity’s roughly 7,000 workers, based on prosecutors.

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On Might 28, 2022, Naganathanahalli was knowledgeable that his employment with Vituity was being terminated. The senior architect admitted in a plea settlement that after he was informed he was dropping his job, he used his privileged system entry to vary the password for one more worker who additionally had privileged entry.

In early September, after Naganathanahalli stopped working for Vituity, he admitted to utilizing the altered worker’s account to vary an HCM password for a contractor, the DOJ mentioned. Later that very same day, he used the contractor’s account to load information containing “dummy” information, changing actual information within the system.

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Naganathanahalli admitted, prosecutors mentioned, to overwriting information for roughly 90 p.c of present and former Vituity workers. The Justice Division mentioned that the whole loss to his former firm was at the least $400,930.

The previous Vituity architect pleaded responsible on Aug. 15, 2024, to a few counts of “knowingly causing the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causing damage without authorization, to a protected computer,” the DOJ wrote in a information launch Thursday.

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Naganathanahalli was ordered to pay $400,930 in restitution together with serving the 18-month jail sentence, which begins July 20, 2025.

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