Former county CISO sentenced for selling stolen network switches on eBay

StateScoop: A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former chief information security officer for Horry County, South Carolina, to two years in prison for stealing network equipment he ordered for the county government, but kept for himself and resold on the internet.

Terry Shawn Petrill, 48, pleaded guilty last November to stealing 41 Cisco network switches that had been purchased in part with federal funds, and that he auctioned nine of them on eBay and other websites between June 2015 and August 2018, court records stated.

Read article

Share