2mo ago

Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company's passwords after getting suspended

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I mean, this guy is an ass, and deserves some stuff punishment. Some places this could cause them to close up shop.
On the side, what kind of business doesn't have a team doing this stuff with accountability/approvals/controls, and especially for someone being fired.
Suspended or fired. We usually jump on this pretty fast. You never know what people will do. Easy enough to just disable accounts. Weird.
- It’s usually harder to do for admins. They’re usually the ones who do the suspending.
  
  The only way that works in practice is to either have a second admin who gets the order while the first is talking to their boss, or you have a non-technical person with a break glass account that can do it while the admin is in that meeting.
  I've had to be the second admin on more than one occasion and it sucks to be the one disabling your coworker/friend when they get fired, but it's part of the job.