Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company.
We are fully remote and require a VPN to access all resources. I literally have to do only two things for termination - disable their VPN account and initiate a remote wipe of their work computer.
There are other things, but once those two things are done, I can take my time.
Following his dismissal, Brody allegedly refused to return his work laptop and instead used his still-valid account to access the bank’s computer network and cause damages estimated to be above $220,000
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Impersonated another cloud engineer at FRB to access the firm’s network and make configuration changes
I can see this at a mid size startup or enterprise, but a bank?
Yeah this is why you fire people after you have changed their login credentials.
We are fully remote and require a VPN to access all resources. I literally have to do only two things for termination - disable their VPN account and initiate a remote wipe of their work computer.
There are other things, but once those two things are done, I can take my time.
Oof
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I can see this at a mid size startup or enterprise, but a bank?
2 years for 220k damage? Isn’t that basically what he earns in two years, so he could pay it back in five?
i could see it as a difficult thing to get hired in the same position after burning things down when leaving.