09 June 2006

Man accused of crashing UBS servers

Note to management: do no piss off your IT staff.
He created the logic bomb which would delete all the files in the host server in the central data centre and then every server in every branch. Some 2,000 servers did go down and 400 branch offices were hit. Backup systems did not work and files were deleted.
"So what?," you might say.
A US court has heard how a disgruntled IT manager allegedly wiped out all UBS Paine Webber servers for a day leaving traders unable to trade because he was unhappy with his bonus.
Ouch.

Nonetheless, I don't feel sorry for this guy:
Roger Duronio was paid a salary of $125,000 by the bank and was expecting a bonus of $50,000. When he only got $32,000 he decided to take revenge on the bank, prosecutors claim.
I'm sure he'll get a dose of reality in Federal PMITA prison.

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