IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail

aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."

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Re:did she really "hack" it?

[TheRaven64]

Given some of the 'hacks' that have been reported here over the last year, I think hack now means 'use a computer in a way that the writer does not completely understand.'