Many of us, at one point or another, have wondered what it would be like to quit a job in a blaze of glory…taking down computer networks and leaving a trail of mayhem in our paths on the way out the door. No, just us?
Well, turns out that if you ever do go down that path it’s probably best
not to text your co-worker shortly thereafter admitting to the crime.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what former Citibank employee Lennon Ray
Brown did and now he’s facing a $77,000 fine and 21 months in a federal
prison.
Per a press release from the Department of Justice, Mr. Brown, upset about a negative work review, decided to get even by taking down 90% of Citibank’s networks across North America. Per the Department of Justice:
…at approximately 6:03 p.m. that evening, Brown knowingly transmitted a code and command to 10 core Citibank Global Control Center routers, and by transmitting that code, erased the running configuration files in nine of the routers, resulting in a loss of connectivity to approximately 90% of all Citibank networks across North America. At 6:05 p.m. that evening, Brown scanned his employee identification badge to exit the Citibank Regents Campus.”
Unfortunately, Brown then made a “slight” unforced error when he decided to send a text message to his co-worker admitting to the crime:
“They was firing me. I just beat them to it. Nothing personal, the upper management need to see what they guys on the floor is capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated. I took one for the team. Sorry if I made my peers look bad, but sometimes it take something like what I did to wake the upper management up.”
Guess these situations don’t always go so well as portrayed in the movies. Oh well, live and learn.
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