IT admin sentenced

The former IT director of the Houston-based LifeGift Organ Donation Center, who had been fired in 2005, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison and ordered to pay $94,222 for hacking into the computer network of the nonprofit, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Danielle Duann, 51, of Houston pleaded guilty in late April to deleting organ donation database records, accounting files and applications -- then erasing logs to conceal her actions. — AM

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