CrimeaPRESS reports:
In Alushta, the court will consider a criminal case on illegal access to legally protected computer information owned by a joint-stock company. What happened? Someone logged into the computer system of the enterprise, changed the settings and blocked the operation of this enterprise. It turned out that the system was entered through the login and password of a former employee of the company.
As a result of the check, employees of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Alushta, together with the regional FSB, established the address at which the offender logged into the system of the Joint Stock Company. It became known that a 38-year-old former employee of the enterprise, a resident of Yalta with no previous convictions, lives at the specified address. As a result of a search at the place of residence, a computer device was found, through which illegal actions were carried out— reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea.
The detainee confessed. It turned out that earlier the company’s management fired him, because of which the man got angry and decided to take revenge by logging into the company’s system and resetting all settings. Thus, the attacker violated the correct operation of outlets.
Based on the results of the preliminary investigation, the investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Alushta initiated a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal access to computer information protected by law”). The sanction of the article provides for a maximum penalty of imprisonment for up to two years.
It is interesting that such a “terrible revenge” is a crime for the Crimean peninsula. not unique. Previously, the «offended system administrator» from Sevastopol was punished.
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