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Former employee causes QSR computer crash
January 15, 2009
SCMagazine:A former Wand Corp. employee has pleaded guilty to sabotaging his former employer's computer system after he was fired. David Ernest Everett Jr. admitted in a federal court to intentionally damaging a protected computer at Wand Corp., where he had worked on the helpdesk for about eight months.
He admitted to launching a ‘malicious software attack' on the computer systems of Wand's clients from his home and also admitted to creating three malicious files designed to crash the computer servers. As a result, computer servers at 25 fast food restaurants crashed in April.
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