A technology director of Houston organ donation company has been charged with hacking into her company's computer database and deleting records.

It is claimed that Dani- elle Duann illegally accessed and damaged LifeGift Organ Donation Centre's database.
LifeGift recovers organs and tissue from the dead people in Texas and delivers them to hospitals across the state.

Prosecutors say that when Duann, 50, was fired as the agency's director of information technology, she went into the system and wiped organ donor information and accounting files. A spokesman said that the intrusion cost the centre, $70,000 to repair.

Quite why this would be such a problem is uncertain as Duaan would have known that the agency had a back-up system. The company also admits that no operation was effected as a result of the files being deleted.

However she has been charged under an unusual law which makes it illegal to tinker with technology to impair, or potentially impair, medical examination, diagnosis, treatment and care.

If convicted, Duann faces up to 10 years in jail. X

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