Australian techie jailed for accessing museum's accounting system and buying himself stuff

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Australian techie jailed for accessing museum's accounting system and buying himself stuff
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The nonprofit museum celebrates Australia's maritime heritage – a matter of some import for the island nation, which therefore attracts government funding.

The convicted techie used his access to the Museum's financial systems to obtain financial details of several individuals and businesses recorded. He then used those details to make to purchases to the tune of over AU$66,000 . The Museum noticed the man's transactions and called the Feds, who put the Command Cybercrime Operations team on the case, leading to a March 2023 arrest. The man was sentenced last Friday to 30 months inside, and will serve at least half that time as the Local Court judge set a non-parole period of 15 months.

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