IT Admin Holding San Francisco Computers Hostage

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that a disgruntled network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar city computer system that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password.
The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported.
The new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) handles city payroll files, jail bookings, law enforcement documents and official e-mail for San Francisco. The network is functioning but administrators have little or no access. Childs, who remains in custody, is accused of improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service, said Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney, on Monday afternoon.

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