A 55 -year -old software developer has to face up to 10 years in prison for deployment of malicious code, which sabotaged his ex -employer’s network, which allegedly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
US Department of Justice Announced On Friday, Davis Lou was sentenced by a jury after “deliberately damaging safe computers”. According to the notifications Ohio and Dublin -based Power Management Company is owned by Eaton Corporation.
The DOJ said, “Lu worked in Eatan Corporation for almost 11 years when he was apparently angry with a corporate” Replanment “in 2018, which” reduced his responsibilities. “
The DOJ explained that efforts to sabotage their network began this year, and by the next year, it applied various forms of malicious code, which created an unlimited loop, which deleted fellow worker’s profile files, prevented legitimate login and caused system accidents. The purpose of slowing or destroying Eaton Corporation’s productivity, Lou named the Japanese word for destruction, “Hakai” and Chinese word cheap, “Hashni,” said Douge.
But perhaps nothing was as destructive as the “total switch” Lou had designed to close everything if it had ever been eliminated.
The DOJ said that the hit switch was created by Lou because it was named “isdlenabledinad”, which is a clear abbreviation of “Davis Lu has been activated in the active directory”. The DOJ interrupted the consumers of the Eaton Corporation globally, saying it was “automatically active” on the day of the LU’s collapse in 2019.