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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. Glue his fingers together so he cant use a pc by mpicpp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've cleaned up messes and had to do data recovery after people deleted their work, reformatted machines, etc. and then quit. I have no sympathy at all for people that do this type of stuff...

  2. Re:Duh... by Jhon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Never talk to the police, ever! Lawyer or no lawyer."

    I hear this often and take issue with it. Last year, my daughter was kidnapped from our home in the middle of the night. My wife, son and I talked to high-heaven answering every question, letting them look at every thing they wanted. FBI, too.

    My goal was to let them rule us out as fast as humanly possible (which they did).

    I understand your sentiment, but those words "never" and "ever" that makes it just wrong.

    (Daughter was recovered. Monster is about to go on trial)