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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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