Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer formerly employed at a bank, has been sentenced to two years in prison for "a network intrusion and for making false statements to a government agency" following a secret service investigation. Seemingly angered by his employer taking disciplinary action against him, Brody kept his work laptop under false pretences after being fired, and used his network access to damage his former employer's internal IT systems.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced the news in a press release trumpeting the investigation (spotted by The Register), which contains some eye-popping details of Brody's malfeasance. Brody pleaded guilty in April this year to the charges, which relate to both the First Republic Bank in San Francisco which employed him until March 11, 2020 and his subsequent behaviour when under investigation.
