Indian pleads guilty to sending damaging computer code

NEW YORK: A 33-year-old IT manager of Indian origin has pleaded guilty to sending damaging computer code to servers at his former employer, causing a loss of $5000 to firm's intellectual property.

Nikhil Nilesh Shah of New Jersey pleaded guilty before US magistrate Judge Robert Numbers of the eastern district of North Carolina to one felony count of causing the transmission of computer code; as a result damaging computers, said Assistant Attorney General Leslie R Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

Shah is scheduled to be sentenced in December this year.

According to the indictment, Shah was an IT manager at a company in North Carolina that developed platforms for the creation of mobile applications from 2007 to March 2012. Subsequently he left the firm to work for another technology company.