TSA Worker Gets 2 Years for Planting Logic Bomb

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Douglas Duchak, 46, had worked as a data analyst at the TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center, or CSOC, since 2004. He planted the malware in late 2009, after the agency gave him two weeks’ notice that he was being terminated from the job he’d held for five years.

The CSOC screens airport workers who have “access to sensitive information and secure areas of the nation’s transportation network,” and also identifies passengers who have a warrant out for their arrest, according to authorities. The CSOC network stores updated information from the government’s terrorist watchlist, as well as criminal histories from the U.S. Marshal’s Service Warrant Information Network.

Duchak’s job was to update the CSOC database as new information arrived from these two sources.

About a week after learning about the fate of his job, surveillance cameras caught Duchak entering the facility after hours. Malware was injected into the system the same evening.

Worker Gets 2 Years for Planting Logic Bomb