According to his claim, he did in his last despair what the Hungarian computer scientist living in America did, who was sentenced to two years in prison that day because, after being fired, he damaged the cloud system of the bank where he worked. work and stole valuable computer code in retaliation. The case was investigated by the United States Secret Service.
“You have put me in a difficult financial situation in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic with this abrupt termination without severance pay,” he was quoted as saying Hints The letter from the 38-year-old Hungarian man from San Francisco, which he wrote to a former colleague after he was fired from commercial bank First Republic, where he worked as a cloud engineer until March 2020. The letter was also included in the record of the trial that began in 2022.
“Plugging in a USB flash drive and watching a movie while someone is sick does not justify this action,” he wrote in his letter. According to court documents, the man was fired after he violated company policy by plugging a USB drive containing pornographic footage into company computers. In his first testimony, the IT professional claimed that he did not know what was on his USB flash drive.
“I got a USB drive from a friend and I thought it had The Matrix on it, and I wanted to watch it when I was home sick.”
The man explained.
According to the supplementary indictment, the man did not return his company laptop even after he was fired, so he continued to access the bank’s computer network, causing a total damage of $220,000 (about 76 million Hungarian forints) to the bank’s system. .
The superseding indictment also alleges that in the days and weeks following his firing, he engaged in deceptive conduct, including filing a police report in which he falsely claimed to San Francisco police that a company-provided laptop had been stolen from his car while he was on duty. In the sports club.
The man repeated this false claim in his statements to US Secret Service agents during interrogation after his arrest in March 2021. He later pleaded guilty, admitting that he made a false statement about the laptop provided by the company, and that he knew exactly at the time that his statement was false. The Hungarian computer scientist pleaded guilty in April 2023, and the judge ordered him to pay $529,000 (i.e. 182 million Hungarian forints) in compensation in addition to the prison sentence.
