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Sacked IT director sabotaged ex-employer’s website

Pete Swabeyby Pete Swabey

The former IT director of a US telecommunications equipment vendor has been served with a two year prison sentence for hacking into the company’s website and deleting files.

Darnell Albert-El accessed the server hosting the company’s site and deleted around 1,000 files because he was angry about being fired, a US court heard.

Albert-El was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay Trans Marx $6,700 in damages. According to reports, he helped the company recover the files in a bid to receive a more lenient sentence.

Pete Swabey

Pete Swabey

Pete was Editor of Information Age and head of technology research for Vitesse Media plc from 2005 to 2013, before moving on to be Senior Editor and then Editorial Director at The Economist Intelligence...

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