News culture After being fired for watching certain videos, he takes revenge by hacking his company… A story that will end up behind bars!
There are stories that are more incredible than others. After watching some very unusual videos on his work computer, this IT engineer was fired. To get revenge, he decides to hack his company and risk ending up behind bars.
He gets fired for watching adult videos, claiming it was the Matrix movie
You probably don’t know the name Miklos Daniel Brody, and that’s completely normal. Far from being a celebrity or a fictional character, this man was a simple computer engineer working in an American bank… at least until a few months ago. Not only did he lose his job, but he was recently sentenced to two years in prison for hacking his company and lying to a government agency.
It’s thanks to one Press release published a few days ago by the Attorney General’s Office of the Northern District of California (and in response to an investigation conducted by the newspaper). The registry) that the story came to light. Everything starts when Miklos Daniel Brody is caught red-handed by the bank where he works (First Republic Bank of San Francisco). transferred multiple files from various USB devices to his work laptop. In theory, nothing bad has happened so far, unless we know These famous files contained pornographic content.
When Brody was called in by HR, he tried to explain that the USB devices had been given to him by friends and that he believed they contained the movie The Matrix. It’s hard to believe this coming from a software engineer, but he decided to stick with that version until the next day when he sent an email to his superiors saying his only intention was “watch a movie and fall asleep“. In the same email He also insisted that he did not know what was in those files, let alone whether it was inappropriate content before adding that he was sick and couldn’t find the movie he wanted to see.
An explanation that was too shaky resulted in him being fired during a second interview that same day Despite his superiors’ requests, he did not take the laptop in question with him. He then promised to return it to them by mail, which he obviously didn’t do.
Disappointed, he takes revenge by hacking the company
On the evening of March 11, 2020, he took advantage of keeping his work computer (and all associated access) to begin his terrible revenge. Then Brody started Delete part of the computer code that his team was working on sent a script Delete colleagues’ access filesmanaged to separate part of it and even emailed each other some code files. Even worse, Brody did all of this while pretending to be another computer engineer marked by the initials “AA”. A priori, this person would have recently received a promotion that Brody coveted.
Among the modified lines of code, the employees also found some humorous sentences that Brody had left there to mock them. A few hours after the start of his campaign of revenge The bank finally managed to revoke his access and immediately demanded the laptop back. Apparently Brody only responded by faking other lies to expose himself and even sent one False police report in which he stated that his famous computer had been stolen.
A year later, in March 2021, Brody was arrested by the US Secret Service. He stuck to his story about stealing the computer before they learned the truth and Brody was forced to admit his lie. During his trial, Judge Orrick found and ordered that Brody had caused damages estimated at no less than $220,621.22 sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervision. He had to too pay the amount of $529,266.37 in damages and interest. Enough to give the Wachowski sisters ideas for a fifth Matrix work…
