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Guy is booted out of IT amid outsourcing, wipes databases, deletes emails... goes straight to jail for two-plus years

Shifting your tech to outside suppliers? Maybe lock down systems first

09 Jul 2019

That's a sticky Siemens situation: Former coder blows his logic bomb guilty plea deal in court

Updated Happy to admit I did a great job, says alleged firefighter-arsonist. Um, nope, says judge

25 Jun 2019

Funnily enough, no, IT admins who trash biz machines can't claim they had permission

Court makes quick work of techie's long-shot appeal

14 Dec 2017

Foil snack food bags make a decent Faraday cage, judge finds

Chap kept his work PDA in one, slacked off, played golf, lost job, appealed, failed to get job back

01 Dec 2017

Engineer gets 18 months in the clink for looting ex-bosses' FTP server

Chap admits he carried on accessing confidential email, schematics after qutting

08 Aug 2017

US engineer in the clink for wrecking ex-bosses' smart meter radio masts with Pink Floyd lyrics

Why does anyone do anything? I don't know, I was really drunk at the time

26 Jun 2017

Code-thief pleads guilty to pinching file system to sell to China

DoJ isn't naming names but this was probably an attempt to lift IBM's GPFS

22 May 2017

Dude hit with $300K bill for faking his hours, hacking boss's website

When your fake invoice strategy is black numbers on a black background, you're gonna fail

11 May 2017

Software dev cuffed for 'nicking proprietary financial trading code'

Claims he was scared about losing his job

11 Apr 2017

Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

Pays high price for 'elphaser' backdoor antics

31 Mar 2017

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

Michael Thomas' appeal will send shockwaves through IT industry if successful

23 Feb 2017

Paper factory fired its sysadmin. He returned via VPN and caused $1m in damage. Now jailed

34-month sentence and he has to pay his old bosses back

18 Feb 2017

Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink

Performance review sparks deletion, 110 offices knackered

27 Jul 2016

PLA sysadmin gets six months house arrest for yanking US Army docs

'Have you ever worked for a foreign army?' 'Uhhh no', clicks eager admin

10 May 2016

The insidious danger of the lone wolf control freak sysadmin

He's got your back... along with your passwords, your contacts and your work

17 Jun 2015

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Guy is booted out of IT amid outsourcing, wipes databases, deletes emails... goes straight to jail for two-plus years

That's a sticky Siemens situation: Former coder blows his logic bomb guilty plea deal in court

Ex-Samsung man to serve 6+ years in prison for embezzlement

Uni IT man stole £22k of Macs to pay for smack

Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches

Funnily enough, no, IT admins who trash biz machines can't claim they had permission

Foil snack food bags make a decent Faraday cage, judge finds

Engineer gets 18 months in the clink for looting ex-bosses' FTP server

US engineer in the clink for wrecking ex-bosses' smart meter radio masts with Pink Floyd lyrics

Code-thief pleads guilty to pinching file system to sell to China

Dude hit with $300K bill for faking his hours, hacking boss's website

Software dev cuffed for 'nicking proprietary financial trading code'

Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

Paper factory fired its sysadmin. He returned via VPN and caused $1m in damage. Now jailed

Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink

PLA sysadmin gets six months house arrest for yanking US Army docs

The insidious danger of the lone wolf control freak sysadmin

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