LINCOLN, Neb. -- Prison time was given to a Massachusetts man, with a Lincoln-based company, for illegally gaining information with a computer.

U.S. Attorney Steven Russell said 31-year-old Jonathan Manzi, of Massachusetts, was sentenced in Lincoln on April 20. He was charged for obtaining information from a protected computer. Manzi will serve  18 months in prison with a year of supervised release after. Manzi was also ordered to pay $655,000 in restitution.

According to court documents, Manzi was an owner and co-founder of Ink Labs, Inc., a business that specialized in technology to let its customers and users upload materials to “the cloud” and then print them at an Ink Labs “kiosk” or other printing location for a fee. The majority of Ink Labs’ customers are colleges and universities. One of Ink Labs competitors in this market was Wepa, Inc., a business located in Alabama. The victim in the investigation worked at Ink Labs until February 2017, when he quit. The victim later took a job at Wepa, Inc. as a regional sales representative.

Officials said while traveling abroad with his family in Spain in June 2017, the victim got notifications from both Google, regarding his Gmail account, and from his cellphone provider, AT&T. The notifications let the victim know that someone had been trying to use his device and accounts. While still in Spain, the victim’s cellphone lost service. He contacted AT&T and was told that he had requested that his phone number be moved to a Samsung device. The victim informed AT&T that he had not authorized this change and asked that his number be moved back to his phone. On this same day, the victim also noticed that he was unable to log into his Gmail account using his information.

Authorities said Manzi used the victim’s Google email account without authorization on July 1, 2017. Manzi also impersonated the victim to AT&T to gain control over the victim’s phone. Manzi was able to get the information that was in files and applications on the Google accounts, including access to the victim’s email account and web-based applications. Manzi then got the victim’s login information for the Dropbox account for Wepa, Inc., which Manzi then used to get files belonging to Wepa.

According to court documents, Manzi again got into Wepa’s Dropbox account using the victim’s Google account and changed the password of the victim’s Dropbox account in July 2017. Once Manzi got into the Wepa, Inc. Dropbox account, Manzi was again able to get information of Wepa, Inc., including customer information.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.