Fired NY Credit Union Employee Nukes 21GB of Data In Revenge

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Fired NY Credit Union Employee Nukes 21GB of Data In Revenge

According to court documents, the defendant worked remotely as a part-time employee for the credit union until May 19, 2021, when she was fired. Even though a credit union employee asked the bank's information technology support firm to disable Barile's remote access credentials, that access was not removed. Two days later, on May 21, Barile logged on for roughly 40 minutes. The defendant deleted over 20,000 files and around 3,500 directories during that time, totaling roughly 21.3 gigabytes of data stored on the bank's share drive. The wiped included files related to customers' mortgage loan applications and the financial institution's anti-ransomware protection software.

Besides deleting documents with customer and company data, Barile also opened various confidential Word documents, including files containing board minutes for the credit union. Five days later, on May 26, she also told a friend via text messages how she was able to destroy thousands of documents on her former employer's servers, saying, "They didn't revoke my access so I deleted p drift lol. [..] I deleted their shared network documents." Although the New York credit union had backups of some of the data deleted by the defendant, it still had to spend more than $10,000 to restore the destroyed data following Barile's unauthorized intrusion.
 

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Is this a ding on working remotely?:lupe:
no, it's a ding on not killing an IT worker's access before firing them.... that's standard operating procedure... you kill the access first, verify it's killed, then you fire the person... that being said, barile is going to face criminal charges and i wouldn't be surprised if they sue her as well.....
 

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She went from losing her job to probably going to prison.

And her grandchildren will probably be fighting lawsuits from the credit union

If I had any money in that bank I'm closing my accounts immediately. If they can't do something simple like disable access for an ex employee, then I would never trust my money with them
 
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