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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. Re:Duh... by DaveV1.0 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't believe it was malice, just incompetence, overconfidence, understaffing or some combination that resulted in a plausibly deniable deadman switch.

    Then you are an idiot, a fool, a liar, or some combination of them. No amount of any of what you said results in multiple servers being reset to factory settings, data backup and replication being disabled, AND the cooling equipment sabotaged. One of those I could by, two would be VERY suspicious, but all three on the same day? No. that is deliberate.

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