(BCN) — A former financial institution employee from San Francisco was sentenced to 24 months in jail on Monday for deliberately damaging his former employer’s cloud system and stealing priceless computer code, federal prosecutors stated.
Miklos Daniel Brody, 38, pleaded responsible in April 2023 to 2 prices that he violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by acquiring info from a protected computer and by deliberately damaging a protected computer and one cost of creating false statements to a authorities company, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California stated in an announcement.
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According to prosecutors, Brody labored as a cloud engineer for First Republic Bank, which is headquartered in San Francisco, till March 2020 when he was fired for violating firm coverage.
Based on a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in December 2022, he used his company-issued laptop computer — which he didn’t return after being fired — to entry the financial institution’s computer network to trigger substantial harm.
Prosecutors stated Brody deleted the financial institution’s code repositories, ran a malicious script to delete logs, left taunts inside the financial institution’s code for ex-colleagues, and impersonated different financial institution workers by opening periods of their names. The superseding indictment additionally famous that he emailed himself a proprietary financial institution code that he had labored on as an employee valued at over $5,000.
According to prosecutors, the full value of the harm to the financial institution’s techniques is a minimum of $220,621. In the times and weeks that adopted his firing, Brody additionally filed a police report, mendacity to the San Francisco Police Department that his company-issued laptop computer was stolen from his automobile whereas he was figuring out at a gymnasium.
He additionally doubled down on that false allegation in statements he made to U.S. Secret Service brokers throughout an interview following his arrest in March 2021, in keeping with the superseding indictment. Brody admitted he made a false assertion concerning the company-issued laptop computer and knew his assertion was false on the time, prosecutors stated.
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Besides his jail sentence, Brody is ordered to pay restitution totaling $529,266.37 and to serve three years of supervised launch to start after his jail time period is accomplished.
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