The old employer’s network, as well as the students’ devices connected to the network, are deleted from the database. IT (IT) technicianwas sentenced to prison by a judge after he said he was looking for a new career in cybersecurity. The teacher who hacked the school he was fired from became the agenda on social media.
29 year old Adam Georgesonin the UK last January Welland Park Academy He wanted to take out his anger in the digital world after he was dismissed from the school named . According to the local Leicester Mercury newspaper, it disconnected 125 devices, 39 of which were family owned.
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An IT specialist at a school in Wellingborough, England, last year Computer Abuse Act He was found guilty of two separate crimes. Adam Georgeson, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison, told the judge that he wanted to start a new career.
Police said Georgeson, who was fired from Welland Park Academy’s IT department in 2017 after two separate scams, was in “huge resentment”. This resentment resulted in his former employer gaining access to his network during the Covid-19 quarantines in 2021.
When he was arrested on January 22, 2021, local police described Georgeson’s actions as a “sophisticated cyber attack.” The attack resulted in a 10-day blackout, and some teachers at the school were unable to work remotely for four months.
Former IT technician uses attack method it was not described in the case reports, but local police stated that it consisted of fourteen different steps. The attacks also affected distance learning students and the school itself.
Judge on ex-IT technician who deleted data of employees and students at school Mark Watson “You made a deliberate effort to sabotage your victims’ networks. Your actions against both groups of victims were committed with the aim of hatred and revenge.” said.
Parents, including a father of three, who said he lost 1,000 family photos, voiced the damage that had occurred. One parent said five years of family photos and footage of relatives who are now deceased were lost, while another said his son’s laptop had been factory reset “as if it were a new computer”.
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