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Steven Barnes has been arrested and sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to hacking an Exchange Server run by his former employer, Akimbo Systems. Barnes claims that he hacked into the system in retaliation for being fired in 2003 at the hands of a group of baseball-bat-wielding thugs. He testified that several Akimbo reps showed up on his door step and confiscated both his work and personal PCs.
Months later, Barnes discovered that some login information he had for the company was still valid and that the company had no security features in place to prevent him from taking over the company's e-mail server. Rather than leave well enough alone, the disgruntled employee turned the computer into an open relay server capable of sending large amounts of spam, deleted the companies Exchange database, and damaged critical operating system components so that the machine would crash when rebooted.
Akimbo said that it was unable to send, receive, or access e-mails and was blacklisted by several spam blocking services. Barnes, in addition to spending a year in prison, will have to pay $54,000 in restitution and will serve three years on probation. [From: Ars Technica]
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Subscribe to commentsKenNov 8th 2008 12:44PM
I would have let my wife, THE TIGER, handle it. After a few minutes, they would have let me come back just to shut her up!
WilliamNov 8th 2008 12:55PM
About 35 years ago I was let go out of the blue by the company owner one morning. I was young, married, just had a kid. He told me that his "girlfriends" son needed a job and he was giving him my job. A week later his company burned to the ground and guess who the 1st person that they came for. Me. Problem was, I was two states away when the place burned. So then it turned to "who did I have do it". It turned out that the company was in trouble finacially so the owner burned it to the ground himself for the insurance money. This was all figured out within a couple of weeks so it wasn't too bad on me. I never even thought of doing anything in retaliation for losing my job until after I found out the A-hole tried to frame me for buring the place. Then I started really thinking about "getting him back" I haven't come up with a good plan yet, but I'm still thinking.
STEVENov 8th 2008 1:15PM
TOO BAD HE GOT CAUGHT...TERRORISTS BOSSES WHO RUN OFF AN EMPLOYEE WITH BASEBALL BATS AND TIRE IRONS DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR COMPUTERS DESTROYED!!!
CHRISNov 8th 2008 1:25PM
go to www.justhelicopters.com to the forum section and you will see disgruntled employees like you have never seen before.
MissyNov 8th 2008 1:30PM
LOL, I think he got more that even and took it a little to far. I know I wouldn't someone like him mad at me.
It could have been handled in a different way and he would still be walking the streets, who is going to want to hire him when he gets out of jail? NOT ME. They say pay backs are hell. I think he got his pay back, without thinking he would get caught, A lesson learned is a lesson well taught, now he may think before he even looks at a computer again.
I don't believe the part about the thugs and ball bats, I thing the proper people got him.
Do they have Computers in jail, he may hack them and set his release date to next week. lol
MissyNov 8th 2008 2:25PM
WILLIAM
Put your mind to rest, his pay back was burning his own place down, then getting caught. He collected no insurance on it and I am sure he got jail time. So he got what was coming to him and you don't have something on your mind, you know, you would always feel bad about it.
As the saying goes, LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE. You are a much bigger person than he is, by letting it go. That is a far greater pay back that you could ever give him.