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IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System

Posted by Soulskill on from the fractions-of-a-penny dept.

itwbennett writes: "In June 2012, Ricky Joe Mitchell of Charleston, West Virginia, found out he was going to be fired from oil and gas company EnerVest and in response he decided to reset the company's servers to their original factory settings. He also disabled cooling equipment for EnerVest's systems and disabled a data-replication process. After pleading guilty in January, Mitchell has been sentenced to four years in federal prison."

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  1. He turned job termination into career termination by JoeyRox · · Score: 4, Informative

    And likely life termination as well. What a complete and utter moron.

  2. Re:Ashamed! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Informative

    He ruins our IT/Ops names...

    He doesn't deserve the term "Pro"

    Right. "Pros" don't get caught!

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  3. Re:Duh... by NotSoHeavyD3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the only video you need to see about this (Yes it's long but it's interesting) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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  4. Re:He's lucky by Wintermute__ · · Score: 3, Informative

    He did. He "hacked in to a protected computer". Also:

    "Mitchell is no stranger to computer-related controversy. In high school, he was accused of planting more than 100 viruses on the school's systems, according to a report in the Charleston Gazette newspaper."

    Great choice, let's hire him!

  5. Re:Ashamed! by careysub · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, between the equal protection clause of the 4th amendment and the cruel and unusual clause of the 8th, it isn't difficult to argue that it does, in fact, mean just that.

    Amen to that. If you have two sets of crimes ones committed by the fabulously wealthy (Wall Streeters, bankers - non one else is in the position to carry out such fraud) which do vast damage, and ones that are committed by ordinary citizens that do comparatively trivial amounts of damage, and that latter set are prosecuted far more vigorously, with much harsher punishments than the former, then we do not truly have a system of laws any longer, we have a system of (very rich) men.

    One is reminded of this: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France

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