Vengeful IT admin thrown behind bars for destroying Army systems on exit
Posted by , 02-10-2019
A former systems engineer has wound up in prison after being found guilty of destroying critical US Army network resources in retaliation for termination.
Last week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Barrence Anthony worked for Federated IT, a federal contractor tasked with looking after US Army Chaplain Corps networks, including financial applications and training systems.
The 40-year-old, hired back in 2016, was apparently tipped off that his employment with the contractor was going to be terminated -- and so chose to leave his mark on these resources before his exit.
As a systems engineer, Anthony knew his target well, which was hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to the affidavit, Anthony's probing of the network began on around December 7, 2016, and continued after he was terminated.