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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. Makes the rest of us suffer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time some person does stuff like this and it hits the press, every other IT person ends up suffering when the PHBs realize what the sysadmin or the Cisco guy is capable of.

    Will this mean better security? Of course not. It just means that oftentimes someone who shouldn't have access to enable secrets or root passwords gets those as a "backup".

  2. What? by segedunum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fowler's attack on the company's firewall, which had caused a "lockout", took Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) three months to resolve.

    What? Seriously. What? What the hell is a lockout and why would it take anyone three months to solve a firewall issue?