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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A Kentucky woman will spend more than a year in prison for illegally accessing Mattress Warehouse's computer servers and deleting employees' user accounts.

Misty Dawn Evans received a 13-month sentence Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Huntington. The 35-year-old Ashland, Ky., woman also must pay more than $28,000 in restitution.

Evans had pleaded guilty last September to computer intrusion and causing damage to a protected computer.

Prosecutors said the accounts' deletion prevented Mattress Warehouse employees in four states from communicating and conducting business from about 3:30 p.m. on April 9, 2008, through 6:30 a.m. on April 10, 2008.

Evans was a network administrator for the company at the time.

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