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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: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 19 2022, @02:58PM
I took a temp job doing data entry in 1988. While there I automated one of the managers' jobs with an Excel spreadsheet - basically meant that instead of six to ten data entry people lining up at her desk for her to run a three step calculation on her desk calculator for them, she turned her computer screen around and they used the spreadsheet to do the calculation for themselves. Over the weeks, the frequency of calculations required increased from 10-15 per day to 20-30 per hour, but no worries, the spreadsheet meant it was zero work for my manager.
The hard drive on her computer crashed (spontaneously, don't know why, nothing I did.) I brought in a boot floppy and had her computer up and running in no-time. Weeks passed. Her manager told me to switch jobs when she was out of the room - I was very up front with her manager: she won't like that - her manager informed me of the chain of command and wouldn't leave my station until I changed tasks as instructed. Her manager left the room. She came into the room, saw I had switched jobs and got furious. I was very up front with her, telling her that her manager explicitly told me to override her instructions and do this. She wouldn't leave my station until I changed tasks back. She left the room. Her manager returned to the room, saw I had switched tasks back, I shrugged and said: she told me to. Her manager left the room, some shouting was heard, and her manager left the building. She returned to the room and I was fired. The only thing unusual about this is that I had worked for about 10 weeks without being fired once, she fired most temps at least once every three weeks or less. They usually returned to work within a week or less. This was Friday.
On Monday I call the office, my manager isn't present but her peer-level co-manager says "oh, no, we need you, come in." I work all of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday my manager returns and simmers at a low boil for the four hours I am guaranteed to be paid. At 1pm precisely, she has my timesheet filled out and signed and dismisses me. Have you forgotten about MY floppy that repaired her computer with MY spreadsheet? She hadn't exactly forgotten, but she certainly hadn't appreciated how few doughnut breaks she would be taking after I took MY floppy with me. I asked if I may take it with me. She said "oh, but of course dear, that's yours, you take it." I took my disk, and I suppose I could have just left the PC running, it would lose power eventually and my spreadsheet would be gone forever, but... the reset button was right there, calling to me. So, I took my disk, tapped the button and said "thank you, dear." on my way out the door, she saw the screen go black and said, overly sweetly, "oh, you're welcome, Dear!"
The temp agency said they have never had a manager so upset. They kept repeating that they would pay me for my hours worked, as if that were in question, and they said they might not be able to place me again. I was extremely done with them for other reasons and told them not to bother looking for placement, I no longer wanted to earn money for them.
Years later, I was hired by the VP of R&D into a small company that had recently come into a large pile of money. Within less than a year, mostly by hiring people like me, the company was rapidly making the large pile into a small one and the VP of R&D started playing spiteful games to make his hires look bad so he could let them go with cause. I decided to not play along with his game and openly disagree with his characterizations of me as unable to do my work, he was unable to manage my work - switching my tasks every few days whenever I got close to completion of anything. I started encrypting my backups and had a "wipe it all" script that would scrub all actively developed source code. He took a firing case for me to the owner, and I was transferred from his area to the owner's office desk since the owner rarely used it. A few months later I stopped encrypting anything, nobody ever knew about the kill-script. Truth of the matter is, it's highly unlikely they would get anything valuable from my 95% completed source code without me anyway. Five years later I was VP of R&D and he was "lateraled" to another position, but I started signing his time sheets. A year after that he retired from industry to go terrorize college kids with spiteful engineering tests.
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