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IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail

Posted by samzenpus on from the bad-idea dept.

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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  1. Re:Harsh Sentence by cayenne8 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "The point I think Frosty Piss was trying to make is that a bum and the President both equally want to live. Not that people value them differently."

    These days...it is getting hard to TELL which one is the bum, and which one is the president.

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