Citibank Employee Hacks Firms Routers; Gets 21 Months in Jail
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 07/30/2016 09:37 AM
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A former Citibank employee, Lennon Ray Brown, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after wiping routers and shutting down 90 percent of Citibanks network access across North America.
What Brown admitted to in Feb. 2016 was damaging a protected Citibank computer in 2013. Acting as an IT personnel, Brown sent a command and code that erased the running configurations of 10 core Citibank Global Control Center routers.
The code and command effectively resulted in the loss of connectivity to approximately 90 percent of all Citibank networks.
Brown sent this text shortly after the attack: “They was firing me. I just beat them to it," the text read. "Nothing personal, the upper management need to see what they guys on the floor is capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated.”
Source: SCMagazine
The code and command effectively resulted in the loss of connectivity to approximately 90 percent of all Citibank networks.
Brown sent this text shortly after the attack: “They was firing me. I just beat them to it," the text read. "Nothing personal, the upper management need to see what they guys on the floor is capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated.”
Source: SCMagazine
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