IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System 265
itwbennett writes: "In June 2012, Ricky Joe Mitchell of Charleston, West Virginia, found out he was going to be fired from oil and gas company EnerVest and in response he decided to reset the company's servers to their original factory settings. He also disabled cooling equipment for EnerVest's systems and disabled a data-replication process. After pleading guilty in January, Mitchell has been sentenced to four years in federal prison."
Re:And in jail.. (Score:4, Funny)
"So, what have you done to get in here?" "I just reset the system of my ex-boss, he was too stupid to recover a backup so he sued me and put me in jail"
I couldn't resist...
--Arlo Guthrie
Re:Duh... (Score:5, Funny)