Key Information:

• Flanagan was a former radio frequency engineer for a company manufacturing remote meter reading equipment.
• He was fired in 2013 and used information about the systems he worked on.
• TGBs installed by his employer for municipal water departments developed problems.
• There were multiple intrusions with the same IP address linked to Flanagan's residence.
• He admitted using a proprietary program to log in from home and changing some settings.

Important Details:

• In at least one case, he changed the default password to an obscenity.
• The original indictment had nine counts but most were dropped in the plea agreement.
• He was sentenced to 12 months plus one day of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $40,000.
• He insisted he was not a master hacker and only did rudimentary logon and defacement.