A federal grand jury in Charleston indicted a Kentucky woman Wednesday, saying she intentionally disabled the computer network of the multistate mattress company where she previously had worked.
According to the indictment, Misty Dawn Evans, 33, of Ashland, worked as a network administrator for Innovative Mattress Solutions LLC, a Winfield-based company that provided business services to Mattress Warehouse and Sleep Outfitters affiliates in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
Across the four states, Innovative Mattress Solutions operated 67 retail stores, five distribution centers, a warehouse and executive offices.
Evans worked for IMS from July 12, 2007, to March 7, 2008, according to the indictment.
On April 9, a month after her employment ended, Evans is accused of accessing a computer and deleting the "core active directory accounts," which shut down business for the company's 275 employees for more than 15 hours.
INS' computers were connected by a dedicated, interstate network, which qualifies its servers as a federally protected computer, the indictment states.
If convicted, Evans faces up to 10 years in prison.
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