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Dev plants kill switch in ex-employer's network that crashed servers and deleted files, gets four years in the slammer — kill switch triggered by dev's removal from Active ...

A software engineer called Davis Lu was sentenced to four years in prison for creating a kill switch in his former employer's ...

Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's Windows network with custom ...
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Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware

When taking revenge, don't use your real name A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company’s servers.… Davis ...
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Fired Developer Sentenced to Four Years for Using Kill-Switch Malware as Revenge

A software developer has been jailed in the US after planting malicious code in the employer’s computer systems, causing a ...