Man charged with illegally entering a Web site and canceling reservations BOSTON (AP) =97 A Worcester man faces charges of illegally entering the Web= =20 site of a Boston travel agency where he used to work and canceling airline= =20 ticket reservations for 60 passengers at Christmas time two years ago, but= =20 his motive remains a mystery. James E. O'Brien, 51, was indicted Wednesday= =20 by a federal grand jury in Boston. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years=20 in prison and a $250,000 fine. O'Brien was charged with knowingly and=20 without authorization causing the transmission of a program or information,= =20 code or command that resulted in damage in excess of $5,000 to a protected= =20 computer at Mill-Run Tours Inc., a travel agency with offices in Boston and= =20 throughout the nation. O'Brien allegedly sent commands to the computer Dec.= =20 18, 2000, canceling airline ticket reservations that resulted in passengers= =20 being left stranded at airports, according to the indictment. Mill-Run=20 Tours lost more than $95,000 because of the cancellations. Mill-Run Tours=20 sells airline tickets to travel agents, who in turn sell them to travelers. Syed Qamar, manager of Mill-Run Tours in Boston, said O'Brien was hired to= =20 work at the company's New York location on software used by travel agents=20 to order tickets for commercial flights on the Internet. O'Brien later=20 worked in Boston. O'Brien left Mill-Run in July 1999, according to the indictment announced=20 by U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and William D. Chase, acting special=20 agent in charge of the FBI in New England. Qamar did not know why O'Brien=20 left the company, and the indictment did not indicate whether he left of=20 his own volition or was asked to leave. "I don't know what the grudge was,"= =20 Qamar told the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester. "He canceled the tickets=20 without anybody noticing. In high season, it's hard to get a seat back." *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.tha.gov.tt/ TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************