Get Fired. Delete Colleague's Account. Go To Jail.

Posted by Zonk on Saturday January 14, 2006 @07:34AM from the i-would-have-taken-up-a-hobby dept.

SierraPete writes "CNet reports that Thomas Millot, a former systems analyst for a major pharmaceutical company, has lost his appeal on a computer intrusion charge. Mr. Millot was convicted of unlawfully entering the system that he used to work on and deleting a colleague's account after his job was outsourced. Mr. Millot's attorneys argued that his actions did not amount to $5K in damage--the threshold for the crime he was convicted of. The court disagreed, saying that IBM had done over $20K in work to undo his handiwork." Update: 01/14 19:55 GMT by J : Typo corrected; turns out the word "not" is important...

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I'm in the wrong job! by WarwickRyan · 2006-01-14 07:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

$20,000 to restore some backups?

Now I know how IBM manages to make so much money.
Re: Mod parent up by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-14 09:53 · Score: -1, Redundant

I'd also like to add that the company would still have to "make damn sure he didn't do anything more serious and insidious" even if he didn't actually do anything at all. If they only look when someone does something obvious, then they may have already burned badly but they don't know it yet.