A former employee of an Ohio-based industrial power management company has been found guilty of sabotaging that company’s IT system with malicious computer code, including a “kill switch” that activated after his position was changed.
Davis Lu, 55, had worked as a senior software developer at Eaton Corp. in Beachwood, Ohio, since 2007 according to Cleveland.com. But in 2018, a “corporate realignment” reduced his responsibilities and system access, which led him to secretly sabotage the network.
“By Aug. 4, 2019, he introduced malicious code that caused system crashes and prevented user logins,” the Justice Department says…