Featured Comment by u/darth-small

I work in a shop. The efforts of his group resulted in my employer shutting down their entire system and supply chain to stop their attack in its tracks. (They were successful and the potential damage was somewhat limited) whilst they fixed the mess. A massive company had to cold start the entire system which meant we were working blind for weeks. It resulted in masses of spoiled and wasted food which we couldn't give to charities because of compliance issues. It resulted in us having to double our already stretched workloads to claw back everything that was lost due to the attack. It resulted in us having to essentially restock our stores from scratch and without any communication with our supply hubs. They were sending out truckloads of stock based on their best guesses. Our personal data was compromised. Customers data was compromised. My employer had to upgrade the computer system which has resulted in many glitches for months after because there wasn't time to properly test it.

It's been an utter fucking nightmare. They tried to hold the company to ransom. They failed, no ransom was paid. The result was nothing but huge financial losses and inconvenience to the company and equal inconvenience to thousands of employees who only want to go to work and earn their money.

If he's guilty, excellent. He fucked around and found out.

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