Disgruntled ex-staffer gets 63 months for malicious data deletion

In one of the stiffest penalties ever handed out, a disgruntled ex-staffer was given a whopping 63 months in federal prison after being convicted of maliciously deleting crucial company data. Jon Paul Oson apparently resigned as a network engineer at the Council of Community Clinics after a less-than-sterling performance evaluation. The Council of Community Clinics is a nonprofit organization that provides various services to 17 regional health clinics in Southern Carolina. He retained access to company systems after he left, however, which he used to perform his sabotage. Oson used his knowledge to first disable automatic backup systems, before logging in a week later to irrecoverably trash appointment data as well as medical files for thousands of low-income patients. He was careful to cover his tracks, and was only caught more than six months after his nefarious act.

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