Chinese national who sabotaged Ohio company’s systems handed four-year jail stint

A former Eaton Corporation employee, Davis Lu, was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for intentionally deploying malicious code in 2018–2019 that deleted system profiles, installed a "kill switch" tied to his credentials, and prevented user logins; the sabotage affected thousands of users worldwide and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. Prosecutors documented his searches and actions to escalate privileges, hide processes, and quickly delete data, and he was prosecuted and sentenced following the investigation.