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.
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?
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.
Yeah this is why you fire people after you have changed their login credentials.
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.
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.