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Man Threatened Company With Cyber Attack To Fire Employee and Hire Him Instead (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A North Carolina judge sentenced a Washington man this week to 37 months in prison for threatening a company with attacks unless they fire one of their employees and hire him instead. According to court documents obtained by Bleeping Computer, on April 18, 2016, Todd Michael Gori sent an email to TSI Healthcare, a healthcare software vendor based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Gori, a 28-year-old resident of Wenatchee, Washington, threatened the company with cyber attacks by him and unnamed friends if the company did not fire one of its employees and hire him instead.
"I am giving you, TSI healthcare two choices," Gori wrote in the email. "You either lay-off [identity redacted] and replace her with me, an operator 100x better that she is oppressing. Or I will take out your entire company along with my comrades via a cyber attack. Again you have two choices. Get ride of her and hire me. Or slowly be chipped away at until you are gone. She is a horrible operator that can only manage 2 screens with an over inflated travel budget. I fly at least 10x as many places as this loon on 1/5th of the budget," the email reads. "I have petitioned for a job with you guys with her as a reference as I am a felon with computer skills and need assistance getting work as technically I have 'no work history'. She declines everytime and burries me even further."
"I am giving you, TSI healthcare two choices," Gori wrote in the email. "You either lay-off [identity redacted] and replace her with me, an operator 100x better that she is oppressing. Or I will take out your entire company along with my comrades via a cyber attack. Again you have two choices. Get ride of her and hire me. Or slowly be chipped away at until you are gone. She is a horrible operator that can only manage 2 screens with an over inflated travel budget. I fly at least 10x as many places as this loon on 1/5th of the budget," the email reads. "I have petitioned for a job with you guys with her as a reference as I am a felon with computer skills and need assistance getting work as technically I have 'no work history'. She declines everytime and burries me even further."
That has to be a joke. No one could be that stupid. Right?
Apparently I have too high of an opinion of humanity.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Not sure how he got 100x better than her, with no work history.
"Sure, I'll hire you because you've proven yourself to be so ethical..."
Snort. That's as moronic as the guy who just tried to rob a bank by writing the note on one of his checks...and then leaving it with the teller.
He is a ex-felon and this having trouble getting a job. So he comes up with an idea to get back in jail, picking on a company who declined his resume a few times.
He did not seem to have hurt anyone, but only threatened them (with gun violence too). And he got 3 years worth of meals on the tax payers dime.
Mission accomplished?
And a Happy New Year!
Black with white stripes.
We are reaching levels of Autism not thought possible before.
Without any other supporting evidence, It seems like there are some mental deficits in play. I'm not even going to grace the preceding statement by calling it a hypothesis, however, on the surface it looks like the only reason the story is relevant to /. is because the label "cyber" has been attached to a generic threat from a person who might be better off in an in-patient care facility instead of prison.
Guess he couldnâ(TM)t make the rent - so, he chose prison. Brilliant!
Yeah, I wonder why? Blackmail a company over a gripe and tell them exactly who you are as well. I mean thats just savant level criminal genius, right?
you could say it's an odd name...
I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin
Man Threatened Company With Cyber Attack To Fire Employee and Hire Him Instead
I find myself lacking words that can adequately describe just how stupid that idea is.
I am American and I see that this is another example of how society keeps our white men down. It give all the good jobs and education to negores and women instead of white men then when any complain call they are stupid and imprison them with the false accusations of terrorism.
I think that every healthcare company in the country should hire an illiterate extorting felon to manage their sensitive information and fire the literate. Can't imagine where he got the idea (cough Trump cough).
Your brain is so small you can't remember Hillary's top secret email server, managed at about that level of security. cough cough cough cough cough (that's just Hillary having another coughing fit)
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
But it's not a banana nana fo fana name like Chuck.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Gee, thanks for reminding us again about the two stellar choices we were given to choose from.
Should have tried an insanity defense.
Wenatchee, Washington came into prominence in the 80's / 90's as the largest population on prozac. Since then, the news these folks generate has been amazing. Why didn't he just get a job at local oddity, Black Rock?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOvIxMLSlY
Oh you mean the mailserver that Colin Powell gave her or maybe you me the copy that Condeleza Rice gave her. Oh wait you me like the "top secret" mailserver that Dick Cheney setup to avoid FOIA requests
Another id 10 t from the south
I've been doing IT work for over 20 years, and all this time it has been an uphill battle to get our chosen field taken seriously. People like this are a big contributor to the problem IMO. I could definitely see offshore outsourcing firms using examples like this as scare tactics when trying to take over a company's IT department. "Mr. Executive, our loyal staff will do the needful 24/7 with zero complaints and zero chance of your company ending up in the news like this." -- or something like that.
I think there's a lot of executives and other decision-makers who think the BOFH stories are a how-to manual for IT guys and don't trust that we won't go rogue om them. The guy who wrote that email, quite frankly, sounds like a butthurt nerd living in Mom's basement whining about how he wasn't chosen for a job. It's true that a lot of us don't derive extreme pleasure from socializing, me included, but most of us have figured out how to not come off as a total idiot like this guy.
The only silver lining I can see from the Great Consolidation to the Cloud coming up is that sysadmins/DevOps guys left on site are going to have to be even more engaged with the people they're supporting. Unless the trend totally reverses itself, and I only see it speeding up, it's going to be very hard to be the lone guy in the data center or lone developer locked in your office.
All these comments are cracking at how incredibly stupid this guy is. I read incredibly desperate.
It's all smiles and wit when we talk about wealth in the USA, eat the rich, French revolution... ect.
Here is a real example of a skilled worker being excluded from the work force on account of Felon status. Keep sitting back and watching with your 5 dollar coffee and cable TV folks. Might as well heat up the popcorn while your at it. Expect more of this sort of thing.
I wonder how many times a year this sort of thing happens in the non-tech sector. This dude is going back to prison, and his family just learned what side of the coin their really on.
People are getting desperate. People are getting more hungry, and people are getting violent. Those people doing the excluding? Their buying the land and driving up the COL everywhere while looking down their noses at everybody else and trying to figure out "the homeless problem"
We're on the express train to desperate violence folks. Look around at the world. Step outside your little bubble and actually look at whats going on. This guy aint stupid. He's desperate, and so are MANY more.
When the shoe finally drops, it's going to be something to behold.
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
Threaten and extort the company you want to work for. It's the obvious way to go. I mean, it's not like you're showing yourself to be of poor moral judgement, and it's not like the company will extrapolate from that to try to figure out what you'd be like as an employee, right?
What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
Funny, I'm a white guy at work, and I'm surrounded by a diverse workforce. It's almost as if we were hired on our ability to perform tech support...
But hey, keep blaming other people for your inability to perform. I get paid for reading it either way.
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
I'm surprised this didn't work. Where did Todd slip up?
But hey, keep blaming other people for your inability to perform.
Perhaps he's a Republican. :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
To me, this story is mostly a symptom that our society needs a bit more (probably, a lot more) mental health care. I don’t mean it in a disparaging way. I feel sincere pity for him. The guy wrote that he is a felon, so he’s probably done jail time; and his writing reveals obvious (and serious) psychological problems. I find it unfortunate that we cannot do better with (or rather, for) people like that. Mental health troubles can be debilitating (particularly, socially debilitating) and lead too many to jail.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the value of personal responsibility. For example, I might get offended if someone bumps into me. But not if it’s a blind person! Unfortunately, psychological problems are (comparatively) more difficult to recognise, understand and (importantly for the legal system) confirm (and measure), so we often handle them using the expedient and cheaper device, the discard pile. This might come from insufficient scientific understanding of those conditions, and limited medical ability to treat them. But I’m afraid that it may also reflect a lack of compassion and generosity on our part, and probably a lack of vision and good judgement as well, since we’re likely ignoring a good investment.
Do you really think the Beautiful Harddisk was serious ?
& i am APK
Here, get a coupon for 75% off for a copy of my HOSTS file. It now also redirects all Federal Agency Cyber Attack servers to 127.0.0.1 !!!
Like most of fellow Americans I agree with you %100.
This guy should be locked up for a month to think about his threats. Maybe he also needs medical treatment.
Beyond that I can only read the Anglosaxon LOCK HIM UP Craziness out of your post. The Craze which has made the US the nation with the highest relative prison population. "Land of the free" and other bitter ironies...
Only Rooskie-employed Georgians, related to Josef Stalin, could be so heinous to poison the pure Waters Of Freedom !
I assume his name is Brutalovitch Shevardnadse Dshugashvili. A grandson of Uncle Joe, with a Special License signed by KGB man Putin to degrade, subvert and morally break America !
America never had a pussy president. That excuses all of this, don't cha know ?
As we know the NY Times are such a gold standard of journalism, it must be true !
The Hive Mind of Marxists is usually infallible and they have decided it was the Roosmans who have stolen the election from the stellar candidate of Goldmann-Sachs, Lockheed and General Atomics.
We all know how critical New Wars are for the economy and Hillary "he died" Clinton pledged to bring new wars for the starving US arms makers. Only the Roosman enemies of Lockheed can be behind this, because what is good for Lockheed profits is good for America. We all know that.
One more proof the Rooosmans are behind all of it !
They have teamed up with Space Nazis and Cuban Whistlers to Inject Dangerous Noises into the ears of patriotic Americans who only want to bring civil war to one more nation !!!
She is probably an HR drone and he thinks she stopped him from joining the company.
https://www.rt.com/news/414224-assange-back-twitter-oddities/
https://www.rt.com/usa/414218-media-trump-twitter-politics/
No, this is just an idiot. Will not reflect on hard working, honest computer guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8TiKY8dE
The private email server was also a feature of Colin Powell's stint as Secretary of State as I recall.
Funny thing about starving the Federal budget, (which has been going on since the Reagan years, BTW) --- it's crippling the things we need government to do and making us vulnerable to external threats. If Americans want to prosper, they must pay for it, and that includes realistic funding for government IT. But I know you don't want to hear that.
Like most of fellow Americans I agree with you %100.
I know it's easier to believe the "Trump voters are racist haters" than the "Clinton was such an obvious witch who disrespected her own people that it caught up with her" scenario, but let's get real for a minute. There are not 62 million racists in the USA. There's not even enough actual racists to swing an election. You lost because your candidate was a common thief and a cunt.
It's been a year, move on. Start getting your shit together for the next election; for instance you could spend your energy to improve the candidate selection process and make sure honest people with actual liberal values are nominated.
lucm, indeed.
Sadly, it wasn't A guy that did that. It was several guys, although deposit slips are used more than checks. I would like to say that this represents the absolute apex of knuckleheadedness in bank robbery, but it actually gets worse.
Moscow Donnie commends you for your loyalty.
The server which, after a string of political investigations, had still not been found to have contained any classified material? The only classified information to touch it are documents that were classified retroactively, after they were already sent.
She used a personal email address to avoid open records laws, probably so she could discuss things frankly with officials and not have to worry about how the public would react to everything she said. It is certainly a bit sleezy, but it was not illegal act the time, and it is a very common practice in politics.
And everyone forgets that this was not her idea,but was standard practice for secretary of state going back to the beginnings of wide-spread email usage.
This guy picked the wrong company. If he had have tried this on one of Silicon Valley's "disruptors" (e.g. Über) they would have recognized his sociopathic genius and hired him on the spot.
Hell, I wish I could forget about the damn server but every time I'm close to forgetting about it the GOP starts another inquiry about it.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am criminal so I can't get a job because no one trusts me. This is most unfair. I am very trustworthy. And to prove it, let me tell you that if you don't give me a job I'll commit another crime - at YOUR expense!
In adition to my computa skilz, I am good at speling (e.g. "Get ride of her," "burries").
I am also a real charmer and a great pleasure to work with. My demeanor is sure to make me popular with my colleagues. In fact, I WOULD ask one of THEM for a reference, but they don't know me yet. She, on the other hand, DOES know me, but doesn't think me worthy of a reference. (I'll say that again: She DOES know me, but doesn't think me worthy of a reference.)
I am thus hamstrung by the fact that one who knows me, doesn't think me worthy of a reference, which merely proves that life is unfair, not that I am in any way unsuitable for employment. That's my philosophy and my attitude to responsibility and THAT will be the attitude that I bring to the workplace should you be so moved by this impressive introduction as to decide to employ me. And indeed, that is why I am taking these steps to endear myself to you, in the hope of impressing you with my positive qualities.
If I don't get this job, I'll make my fortune by creating an online course, advising other people on how go about finding employment. As you can see, I am eminently qualified to create such a course.
Yours sincerely,
Willy Wanker
This person is clearly doing both - IQ and shoe size in the same low numerical range.
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