IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347
aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."
Re:Harsh Sentence (Score:2, Interesting)
1st: I do not think I agree with OP. If I did the same damage without a PC, I bet I would be arrested.
2nd: The reporting is interesting. To a great extent, folks knowledgeable about computer systems/programming are looked on as some type of magicians. We get mixture of respect and contempt because of this. People depend on us and our services and that creates a high level of conflict.
3rd: They are actually working on the idle CSS. Still sucks, but at least the edit textbox is no longer 0.75" wide.
Re:did she really "hack" it? (Score:5, Interesting)