{Lexington, Kentucky}...Monday, U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell in Lexington ordered Ibrahimshah Shahulhameed of Georgetown, a former computer programmer for Toyota, to forfeit any information and data he took from the computer system of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America and to not leave the United States while the company investigates the damage done by an alleged computer hacking incident. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Lexington, Toyota alleged that Shahulhameed illegally accessed the website www.toyotasupplier.com after being dismissed from his contract position on Thursday. Toyota claims that Shahulhameed spent more than six hours inside the computer system's firewall on Thursday and Friday and reprogrammed at least 13 applications in the computer system in an effort to cause it to crash.
