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Posted 27 February 2018 - 12:46 PM

The Register,  London, UK 2/14/18:
 

 

Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches

 

Grouchy Grupe gets a year and a day behind bars after going loco on network hardware

 
 

 

A former IT administrator at the Canadian Pacific Railway has been jailed for 366 days for sabotaging the organization's computer network.

 

Christopher Victor Grupe, 46, had a rocky relationship with his employers: in December 2015, he was suspended for 12 days for insubordination and just not making the grade as a sysadmin. After sitting on the naughty step, he returned to the office on December 15 to be told he was being let go, and this got him rather fired up.

 

Grupe, who worked at the railway's US headquarters in Minneapolis, convinced his bosses to let him quit rather than sacking him. The company acquiesced, and Grupe walked out after signing a resignation letter. He also agreed to return his laptop, remote access authentication token, and access badges.

 

On December 17, Grupe choo-choo-chose to take a walk on the other side of the tracks, and got up to mischief. Specifically, he used his work notebook and credentials to log into CPR's computer network switches, and began to let off some steam.

 






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