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Former Computer Science Graduate Student Sentenced for Hacking Major Corporation
Defendant Jerome Heckenkamp Defaced Web Pages and Installed "Sniffer" Programs to Steal Passwords
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Jerome T. Heckenkamp, 25, presently of Santa Monica, California was sentenced today in federal court in San Jose. United States District Court Judge James Ware sentenced Mr. Heckenkamp to 8 months in prison and 8 months of electronic monitoring and home confinement, for gaining unauthorized access into and damaging computer systems of several high-technology companies, including eBay in San Jose and Qualcomm in San Diego, as a graduate student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin in 1999.