[lf] Cyber Citizen lands Felony Charges? Cyber Citizen lands Felony Charges?

A good deed may lead to prosecution for Brian K. West, a 24 year old sales and support employee for an internet service provider in SE Oklahoma. Mr. West has become a statistic for the Computer Analysis Response Team because he alerted a local business to a serious security flaw in their website.
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Read this article and see if you can figure out what he did 'wrong'?