Computer Crime and the Electronic Crime Scene
Thomas A. Johnson · 2005
In the mid-1960s our nation experienced its first series of criminal activity in which a computer was used as an instrument to perpetrate an economic crime. In his book, Fighting Computer Crime , Donn B. Parker reports that in 1966 the first federally prosecuted case of a computer crime involved a consultant working under contract with a Minneapolis bank to program and maintain its computer system. This case was unique: The individual was prosecuted for embezzlement of bank funds because he changed the checking account program in the bank’s computer so that it would not identify and automatically notify bank officials of overdraft charges in his personal checking account (Parker 1997, 8).