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

By Sergiu Gatlan · BleepingComputer · Tuesday, 6 October 2026 at 08:19 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

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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