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Law Firm Insider Sentenced to 9 Years, Must Pay 1.7 Million Fine

April 20, 2016

DARKReading reported on April 18 that a former IT engineer for Dallas law firm Locke Lord from 2006-2011, was sentenced to 9 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.7 million in restitution for a destructive computer attack he committed against his former employer in 2011.

Anastasio N. Laoutaris, 41, of Spring, Texas, was the employee. On Dec.1 and Dec. 5, 2011, four months after his employment there ended, Laoutaris accessed Locke Lord's systems without authorization and according to court documents, issued commands that caused "significant damage" to the network, "including deleting or disabling hundreds of user accounts, desktop and laptop accounts, and user e-mail accounts."

Laoutaris was convicted of two counts of intentionally accessing a computer network without authorization and intentionally issuing commands and codes that caused damage to the network.

So though it is true that the insider risk has greatly diminished, it is by no means gone. I would guess there was no intrusion detection system in place given the facts.

Hat tip to Dave Ries.

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