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Angry IT admin wipes employer's databases, gets 7 years in prison:
Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data.
Bing allegedly performed the act in June 2018, when he used his administrative privileges and "root" account to access the company's financial system and delete all stored data from two database servers and two application servers.
[...] Surprisingly, Bing had repeatedly informed his employer and supervisors about security gaps in the financial system, even sending emails to other administrators to raise his concerns.
However, he was largely ignored, as the leaders of his department never approved the security project he proposed to run.
This was confirmed by the testimony of the director of ethics at Lianjia, who told the court that Han Bing felt that his organizational proposals weren't valued and often entered arguments with his supervisors.
In a similar case from September 2021, a former New York-based credit union employee avenged her supervisors for firing her by deleting over 21.3GB of documents in a 40-minute attack.
Anyone have stories of any interesting employee departures that they have exprienced?
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday May 18 2022, @08:08PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lianjia#Controversies [wikipedia.org]
Well, this is a kind of fast karmic retaliation to all your clan you get when you betray a loyal underling who turns to become enraged lone jianghu warrior...
The whole incident could be staged as well, ordered by someone else (a customer or high rank) for a specific hidden reason.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday May 18 2022, @10:06PM
IMHO, the level of education required from corporate tech workers along with their social status, level of compensation, how they're not required to go through an apprenticeship or expected to fulfill any filial-like duties places them closer to the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats, soldiers and priests than the lower classes workers and hired swords of Ancient China.
If you throw in a bit of conspiracies and romance you might be able to squeeze out a court drama or something... Either way, this guy is no John Wick I can tell you that much.
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