Disgruntled ex-employee costs company over $600,000 after he deletes all 180 of its test servers —

yongsiklee

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/disgruntled-ex-employee-costs-company-over-dollar600000-after-he-deletes-all-180-of-its-test-servers-found-server-deletion-scripts-on-google

Talistech

Luckily for the company it consisted only test servers :-p

kait

Indian

Maounique

Due to a human oversight in administering the standalone test environment, the perpetrator’s access to the test environment wasn’t terminated immediately upon departure from the company

You invalidate credentials, THEN you fire.

hyun

Next time, I hope the website won’t have so many ads. If a webmaster can only make a living from ads, then he is not suitable for the internet.

boot

@hyun said:
Next time, I hope the website won’t have so many ads. If a webmaster can only make a living from ads, then he is not suitable for the internet.

Ads?

zed

@Maounique said:

Due to a human oversight in administering the standalone test environment, the perpetrator’s access to the test environment wasn’t terminated immediately upon departure from the company

You invalidate credentials, THEN you fire.

yea sounds like they need to fire some more people.

ScreenReader

@kait said:
Indian

test server status: redeemed

totally_not_banned

Shouldn't it rather be "insolvent ex-employee"?