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A sacked worker has admitted planting malware on his former employer's computer network in a revenge attack. David Ernest Everett Jr, 21, of Blaine, Minnesota, a former help desk staffer at Wand Corp, carried out the attack three weeks after losing his job in March 2008. Wand supplies IT systems including point-of-sale kit for …

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  1. richard tanswell
    Paris Hilton

    Idiot

    What sort of knob does something like this from their home computer!!! Oh yeah, he was a member of a help desk! Explains it all really!!!

    Now I know what he and Homer Simpson have in common....D'OH!

  2. Maximiliam Barsk
    Thumb Up

    True working class hero

    This should teach KFC not to mess with their employees!

  3. Jimmy Floyd

    How long?

    $49,000 clean-up = (potentially) a decade in chokey AFTER pleading guilty?!?

    Wow, $4,900 per year. At least the American legal system isn't famous for going over-the-top. What do you get for shooting someone?

    "A job as the Vice-President," you say...

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hang 'em high

    Hey the scumbag deserves to get the burger thrown at him for the malware damage. Throw his arse in jail for a year and fine him $200K. He'll get the message.

  5. Scott Evil
    Alert

    OMG!

    "The assault was quickly traced back to Everett, who mounted the attack from HIS HOME PC"

    What a bell-end

  6. Dave

    His Home PC

    Well, I think we can all jump to simple conclusions as to why his employer let him go...

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    McDonalds Wireless

    Shouldn't he have thrown them off the scent by doing all this from the free wireless connection at Maccy D's?

    Mine's the one with the NetStumbler in the pocket...

  8. Anonymous John

    Idiot!

    He has the ability to do that, but not the sense not to do it from his home PC?

  9. AndyC

    Dont hang him,

    Make him work in one of the "resturants" as a cleaner until he has paid back the cost of the clean up... With a sign... explaining why he is there...

  10. Pierre

    Pah...

    Most higher management types -and some politicos- steal at least ten times that per year. Every year. This guy just needs to get the right friends. And some common sense (from home? C'mon!)

  11. Doug Glass
    Go

    If you're going to be dumb ...

    ... you better be tough.

  12. Frostbite
    Paris Hilton

    From his home PC

    noob !

    Must have graduated @ PCW

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    win32.trailer_park?

    is he also married to Joy Turner?

  14. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    Punishment != crime

    Maybe they'll let a murderer or a rapist out early so he can serve his time.

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    "mounted the attack from his home PC"

    What an idiot.

    I assume he didn't even have the sense to use a proxy...

    People that stupid deserve to be caught.

    @Anonymous John - no skill required for script kiddies. Only real cracking requires skill.

  16. Rick Brasche

    AndyC almost has the right idea

    even better, make him in charge of the grease traps......eeeew!

  17. Angus

    Well

    you can see why they wanted to sack him. Stupid and vindictive.. what a combo.

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Okay then

    KFC IT security is the problem. The twerp should never have been able to access their systems after being fired.

  19. Stephen

    Should have done physical damage

    Up to 10 years? He'd have been better off just going into each store and taking a hammer to each computer, I bet he'd get less.

    Oh its a computer related crime you say? You better raise the sentence just in case. Ugh.

  20. Gary Brown

    10 years!!!!!

    ....a but steep considering he probably only made a few burgers go cold.

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Guy Deserves A Medal

    How many coronary arteries did he save ?

    But then take it away as he deserves fuckwit hacker of the year award for using his own PC.

  22. Yorkshirepudding
    Go

    epic fail

    but so near to an epic win, mind the soap sunshine

  23. Cameron Colley

    RE: Should have done physical damage

    He should have just taken a baseball bat to the manager who fired him -- he might still have got less time.

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