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When contractors attack: two years in jail for vengeful IT admin

Deepanshu Kher was helping a client to transition to a Microsoft Office 365 environment. But apparently the client company was so displeased with Khers performance that they complained about it to the consultancy company that despatched him. As a consequence, Kher got laid off and went back to India. Two months later, he decided to infiltrate the California firm’s servers and deleted over 80% of employee Microsoft accounts. The company informed the FBI about the incident and it wasn’t all that hard to figure out who the culprit was.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2021/03/when-contractors-attack-two-years-jail-for-vengeful-it-admin/

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