terrixrrn PERI If BATE st U S Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation 550 Main Street Room 9000 Cincinnati Ohio 45202 kNm November 3 1998 35 07' Rec-d Furman University 3300 Poinsett Hwy Greenville SC 29613 RE Notice to Preserve Evidence Under Title 18 U S C 2703 f Dear if -J This letter is to follow up our telephone conversation on November 2 1998 As I stated at that time I am a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI a duly authorized federal law enforcement officer empowered to investigate unauthorized access into private state local and federal computer systems As previously discussed during the 33_ following dates September 22 and 24 1998 an unknown Lkde individual illegally entered a state 'tutional computer system at According to our investigation this cormunication originated or b7E passed through your system furman edu This letter serves to inform you that I will be pursuing the issuance of a subpoena and or court order under Title 18 U S C 2703 d respectively to trace the unknown individual back from your system Inasmuch that this process can be time consuming I have requested pursuant to Title 18 U S C 2703 f that you take appropriate measures to preserve transactional logs contents of any relevant communications back up files and any other evidence that pertains to the aforementioned connections For ease of reference Title 18 U S C 2703 f provides Requirement to preserve evidence 1 In general A provider of a wire or electronic communication service or a remote computing service upon the request of a government entity shall take all necessary steps to preserve records and other evidence in its possession pending the issuance of a court order or other 11 Addressee u c1 288 68562 BB bb 2 Sea-isms turmeric 2 Period of retention Records referred to in paragraph 1 shall be retained for a period of 90 days which shall be extended for an additional 90 day period upon a renewal request by the governmental entity Finally although you have been most cooperative we have in other situations experienced some informational leaks While such leaks may represent misplaced good intentions they can have serious impact upon our investigation Accordingly we would respectfully request that your personnel be placed on notice that they are subject to criminal liability should they disclose any privileged information The governing statute in this regard is Title 18 U S C 2232 b which provides Notice of Search Whoever having knowledge that any person authorized to make searches and seizures has been authorized or is otherwise likely to make a search or seizure in order to prevent the authorized seizing or securing of any person goods wares merchandise or other property gives notice or attempts to give notice of the possible search and seizure to any person shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years or both Again I greatly appreciate your cooperation in this matter with our agency If vou have anv questions or comments please feel free to call SA at Sincerely yours Sheri A Farrar Special Agent in Charge Superv1sory Special Agent