[ISN] Ex-Employee Wiped Financial Data While At Bikini Bar

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 03:45:37 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239461/exemployee_wiped_financial_data_while_at_bikini_bar.html

By Robert McMillan
IDG News
Sep 2, 2011

At the Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas, you can get 
burgers and beer served to you by cute waitresses wearing denim shorts 
and bikini tops. And if you're David Palmer, a recently fired IT worker, 
you can also break into a U.S. military contractor's computer systems 
and wipe out payroll files, wreaking havoc at its customers.

That's exactly what Palmer did on Jan. 21, 2010. Angry that his former 
employer, McLane Advanced Technologies, had fired him and then refused 
to help him with an unemployment benefits claim he'd made to the Texas 
Workforce Commission, Palmer broke into McLane's systems and deleted 
payroll files belonging to Lone Star Plastics, a McLane customer that 
makes polyethylene bags and can-liners. He also broke into a second 
McLane customer, Capstone Mechanical.

"The only reason for logging into any of these servers was to create 
general havoc and disorder for McLane Advanced Technologies the 
following day," Palmer told investigators, according to court records.

The plan worked. When employees at Lone Star Plastics' Prattville, 
Alabama, facility tried to punch in on the 21st, they discovered that 
the McLane server that hosted their punch clock software and payroll 
records had shut down. Two days later, McLane Advanced Technologies 
contacted the U.S. Secret Service, reporting that it had been hacked.

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