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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA judge has sentenced an Indianapolis man to two years in federal prison for extorting an insurance company through interstate
e-mail.
Judge Sarah Evans Barker sentenced 28-year-old Kevin M. Stewart on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis.
Federal prosecutors say Stewart stole a computer server from AIG Medical Excess that contained the names and confidential
information of 900,000 people in 2006 while working for a private security firm. He later allegedly threatened to release
the data to the Internet unless he was paid $1,000 a week for four years. He used e-mails to make arrangements for the payments.
Stewart also was ordered to make restitution of $1.4 million to help cover the company’s cost of identifying and notifying
those whose data was stolen.
Authorities say the stolen data was recovered.
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