14 DAY TRIAL // 24-year-old Bosung Shim, of Rockville, Maryland, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison, 7 months of community confinement, and 3 years of supervised release for hacking into the computers of various organizations.
According to authorities, he will also have to forfeit the computers used to commit the crimes, and pay $31,653.24 (€23,047.36) in restitution.
Between June 2011 and December 2012, Shim repeatedly tried to hack into the computer systems of the University of Michigan and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
In 2012, he attempted to breach AAMC’s networks in an effort to change his Medical College Admission Test scores. After realizing that he can’t do it, he hired others to hack into the organization’s systems for him.
AAMC reported that the cyberattacks resulted in tens of thousands of dollars in damage. In addition to hacking, Shim is also said to have perpetrated related fraud against other organization, such as the National Institutes of Health.
Maybe he should have tried a career in IT security, instead of trying to become a doctor.