Dev plants kill switch in ex-employer's network that crashed servers and deleted files, gets four years in the slammer — kill switch triggered by dev's removal from Active Directory when fired

tomshardware - A software engineer called Davis Lu was sentenced to four years in prison for creating a kill switch in his former employer's network.

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Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing

6 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

The ex-developer was convicted of planting malicious code designed to crash its servers in the event that he was fired.

6 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Dev plants kill switch in ex-employer's network that crashed servers and deleted files, gets four years in the slammer — kill switch triggered by dev's removal from Active Directory when fired

6 months / tomshardware

Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer’s network with a ‘kill switch’

6 months / techcrunch / Zack Whittaker

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