On April 11, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced a former employee of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to accessing a protected computer without authorization and intentionally damaging it by sending emails to particular Department of Energy employees that would install a virus on their computers upon opening it.

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