A former software program developer has been sentenced to 4 years in jail for sabotaging his former employer’s community after leaving the corporate.
Davis Lu, 55, was convicted of putting in a “kill change” on the community of his former employer by planting malicious code designed to crash its servers within the occasion that he was fired.
The kill change was activated when the corporate terminated Lu’s employment and deactivated his credentials, inflicting the kill change, “IsDLEnabledinAD” — referring as to whether Lu’s account was nonetheless lively within the firm’s Lively Listing. The incident locked out hundreds of staff from accessing the corporate’s methods.
The Justice Division, which prosecuted the case, mentioned Lu’s employer, which was not named however reportedly the facility tech firm Eaton, mentioned the incident brought on a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} in injury.
Lu was found partly via his web search historical past, the Justice Division mentioned, which included searches researching “strategies to escalate privileges, conceal processes, and quickly delete recordsdata.”