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In a fit of anger and after being brushed off by his bosses for reporting the poor security of the company’s systems, a former IT administrator deleted the database of Lianjia, a Chinese real estate brokerage giant, only to Prove your point and so you have just been sentenced to 7 years in prison.
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The act was executed in June 2018 by the subject named Han Bing, when using his administrator privileges to access the system, he deleted all data from two servers, one for applications and the other with the entire company database. , which caused the immediate stoppage of its operations.
The information is known thanks to the recent publication of court documents from the Haidian District People’s Prosecutor’s Office, Beijing, where they indicate that the cost of restoring the data was approximately $30,000, but it had a much higher total cost since that left tens of thousands of its Lianjia employees without wages for an extended period, a company that operates in thousands of offices, where more than 120,000 brokers work and which also has 51 subsidiaries.
Bing was one of the five suspects of having committed the act, the other four being later discarded and blamed for the incident, since according to the investigators he first refused to give his user data and password for the review of his computer, for which The technicians had to carry out IP and MAC address checks to finally confirm that it was precisely he who deleted the data.
According to the prosecution documents, he did this using the “shred” and “rm” commands, which overwrite the data three times with multiple patterns to make it unrecoverable and remove symbolic links from the files, respectively.
His direct superiors indicated that Bing had repeatedly reported security breaches in the financial system, warning about them in emails, but was always ignored and the leaders of his department never approved the security project he proposed.
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