Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware
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A former Eaton senior developer covertly uploaded a Java 'kill switch' named IsDLEnabledinAD that launched infinite non-terminating threads after his account was disabled, overloading servers, preventing logins for thousands of employees and deleting corporate data; he was arrested, tried, convicted of damaging a protected computer, and sentenced to four years in prison.
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