A federal judge has sentenced the former IT director for a nonprofit organization to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty to hacking into her its computer network.

The IT worker pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal indictment charging her with unauthorized computer access. In addition to the two-year prison term, the judge sentenced her to a three-year period of supervised release following completion of her prison sentence, and ordered her to pay $94,222 in restitution.

In pleading guilty, the woman admitted to illegally accessing the computer network of a organ and tissue donation center and then intentionally deleting database records, accounting invoice files, database and accounting software applications and various backup files, without authorization.

Prosecutors alleged that the employer terminated the woman from her position as their director of information technology in November 2005, and revoked all of her previous administrative rights and access to the computer network.

In pleading guilty, the woman admitted that she repeatedly gained unauthorized access to the computer network via a remote connection from her home and intentionally caused damage by deleting numerous database files and software applications, as well as their backups, related to the organ and tissue recovery operations.