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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 18 2022, @10:55PM
How do you know that wasn't exactly what happened, and then the bosses pointed the "investigators" to a convenient, too-informed scapegoat?
TFA: "The administrator immediately raised suspicion when he declined to give his laptop password to the company's investigators."
Which means, he was vary of them planting "evidence". Has not helped him any in the end; evidence conveniently found on company's devices afterwards (however it arrived there) was enough for Chinese court to jail him anyway.