Miklos Daniel Brody, a former cloud engineer at First Republic Bank in San Francisco, was recently sentenced to two years in prison and 52 in compensation after being fired from the company for retaliating by deleting the bank's ** library$90,000.
First Republic Bank is a commercial bank in the United States with more than 7,000 employees and annual revenues of 67$500 million. The bank was ** to JPMorgan Chase on May 1, 2023.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement, First Republic Bank cloud engineer Brody was fired from the bank on March 11, 2020, for violating company policy by connecting a USB stick containing pornographic content to a company computer (to watch videos on the company's laptop).
The bulletin alleges that Brody's refusal to return his work laptop after his dismissal and his (which is still active after being fired) account was used to access the bank's computer network, causing more than $220,000 in damages.
Not only did Brody delete the bank's ** repository, but he also ran a malicious script to delete the logs and taunt his colleagues in the bank**, and Brody also pretended to be other bank employees to join the conversation.
According to the announcement, Brody also emailed herself the proprietary bank she used as an employee**, which was worth more than $5,000.
Prior to ending the illegal access to First Republic Bank's network on March 12, 2020, Brody performed the following:
The run is named "dar."sh" to wipe First Republic Bank's servers.
Removed git logs and git commit history for specific scripts.
Visit First Republic Bank's github repository and remove the escrow**.
Insert "taunt" content, including references to "grok".
Another cloud engineer impersonating First Republic Bank accessed the company's network and made configuration changes.
After the incident, Brody lied to the San Francisco Police Department that a company-issued laptop had been stolen from his car.
Eventually, Brody pleaded guilty to lying about his laptop in April 2023 and pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
In addition to two years in prison and the payment of compensation, Brody will be placed under residential surveillance for three years.
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