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Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network

·Source: BleepingComputer

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Executive Summary

A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's network in a ransomware-style attack. [...]

Analysis

A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's network in a ransomware-style attack. [...]
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Originally published by BleepingComputer on Oct 6, 2026.

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