Richard Liriano was sentenced to 30 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to use malicious software programs, including a program known as a “keylogger,” on dozens of his coworkers’ computers at a New York City-area hospital, secretly obtaining user names and passwords to his victims’ personal email and other accounts, and using that unauthorized access to steal private and confidential files. Using his victims’ stolen credentials, Liriano repeatedly compromised their password-protected online accounts, and accessed their sensitive personal photographs, videos, and other private documents Liriano’s computer intrusions into Hospital-1’s computer networks caused over $350,000 in losses to Hospital-1, which include the expenses that Hospital-1 incurred to remediate the damage that Liriano caused to its computer networks. In addition to the prison term, Liriano, 34, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced to three years of supervised release. Liriano was also ordered to pay restitution of $351,850.25.
