If you’ve ever fantasized about trashing your company’s network, meet a guy who did it.
Roger Duronio, 63, of Bogota, N.J., was angry that his expected $50,000 bonus was only $32,000. Poor baby.
So, like you do, the sys admin allegedly crafted a logic bomb of gigantic proportions, which wiped out 2,000 servers and affected 400 branch offices of gigantic financial firm UBS Paine Webber.
Unfortunately for the trading firm, its back-up systems failed, countless files were lost and the whole net was down for a day. Oh, and it cost $3.1 million to get the network back up again, and remember, it was only down for one day.
Even more unfortunate is the fact UBS asked the judge to keep Duronio’s current trial on the down low so its customers won’t freak out. And, obviously, the judge said, “Too bad,” which is why you’re reading this.
Duronio is offering the classic “I didn’t do it” defense.
Via The Register
