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The vindictive employee will spend 2 years in prison and pay compensation to the company.
Miklos Daniel Brody, a 38-year-old cloud services engineer, was sentenced to 2 years in prison and $529,000 in compensation for destroying the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired from the company.
First Republic Bank was a commercial bank in the United States that employed more than 7,000 people and had an annual revenue of $6.75 billion. The bank closed on May 1, 2023 and was sold to JPMorgan Chase.
According to the US Department of Justice, Brody was fired on March 11, 2020 from First Republic Bank (FRB) in San Francisco, where he worked as a Cloud engineer. Court documents say Brody was fired from his job after he violated company policy by plugging a USB drive containing pornography into the company's computers.
After being fired, Brody allegedly refused to return his work laptop and instead used his still-active account to access the bank's computer network and cause damage estimated at more than $220,000.
Prior to the termination of access to the FRB network on March 12, Brody performed the following actions:
After the incident, Brody falsely reported to the San Francisco Police Department that an FRB-issued laptop computer had been stolen from his car. He continued to support this theory when he testified to agents of the United States Secret Service (USSS) after his arrest in March 2021.
Eventually, in April 2023, Brody pleaded guilty to deception with a laptop story and two charges of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In addition to the 2-year prison sentence and payment of compensation, Brody was assigned 3 years of Supervised Release.
Miklos Daniel Brody, a 38-year-old cloud services engineer, was sentenced to 2 years in prison and $529,000 in compensation for destroying the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired from the company.
First Republic Bank was a commercial bank in the United States that employed more than 7,000 people and had an annual revenue of $6.75 billion. The bank closed on May 1, 2023 and was sold to JPMorgan Chase.
According to the US Department of Justice, Brody was fired on March 11, 2020 from First Republic Bank (FRB) in San Francisco, where he worked as a Cloud engineer. Court documents say Brody was fired from his job after he violated company policy by plugging a USB drive containing pornography into the company's computers.
After being fired, Brody allegedly refused to return his work laptop and instead used his still-active account to access the bank's computer network and cause damage estimated at more than $220,000.
Prior to the termination of access to the FRB network on March 12, Brody performed the following actions:
- deleted the bank's code repositories;
- ran a malicious script to destroy FRB servers;
- ran a malicious script to delete logs;
- left comments in the bank's code with ridicule for former colleagues;
- impersonated other bank employees to gain access to the company's network on their behalf and make configuration changes;
- he sent his own code to his email address, which he worked on as an employee, and which was valued at more than $5,000.
After the incident, Brody falsely reported to the San Francisco Police Department that an FRB-issued laptop computer had been stolen from his car. He continued to support this theory when he testified to agents of the United States Secret Service (USSS) after his arrest in March 2021.
Eventually, in April 2023, Brody pleaded guilty to deception with a laptop story and two charges of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In addition to the 2-year prison sentence and payment of compensation, Brody was assigned 3 years of Supervised Release.
